Higher in rank, dignity, or office; superior.
senior member; senior counsel
Of or pertaining to a student's final academic year at a high school (twelfth grade) or university.
An old person.
Grave and reverend seniors seemed to have caught the prevailing spirit as badly as the students, and I saw white-bearded men rising and shaking their fists at the obdurate Professor.
A surname.
From Middle English senior, from Latin senior (“older”), comparative form of senex (“old”); see senate. Doublet of seigneur, seignior, senhor, señor, senyor, signore, sir, and sire.
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Someone older than someone else (with possessive).
He was four years her senior.
Someone seen as deserving respect or reverence because of their age.