different between senior vs seniory

English

Alternative forms

• seniour (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin senior (“older”), comparative form of senex (“old”); see senate. Doublet of seigneur, seignior, sire, and sir.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?sinj?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?si?nj?(r)/
• Hyphenation: se?nior

Adjective

senior (comparative more senior, superlative most senior)

1. Older; superior

2. Higher in rank, dignity, or office.

3. (US) Of or pertaining to a student's final academic year at a high school (twelfth grade) or university.

Synonyms

• (older): geriatric, long in the tooth, on in years; see also Thesaurus:elderly

Antonyms

• junior

Related terms

• senile
• senate
• sir

Translations

Noun

senior (plural seniors)

1. (now chiefly US) An old person.

   Synonyms: senior citizen; see also Thesaurus:old person

2. Someone older than someone else (with possessive). [from 15th c.]

3. Someone seen as deserving respect or reverence because of their age. [from 14th c.]
4. (obsolete, biblical) An elder or presbyter in the early Church. [14th-16th c.]
   • 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Acts IV:

     Then Peter full of the holy goost sayd unto them. Ye ruelars of the people, and seniours of israhel [...].

5. Somebody who is higher in rank, dignity, or office.
6. (US) A final-year student at a high school or university. [from 17th c.]

Antonyms

• junior

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• senior in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• senior in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Ireson, Nerios, Serino, irones, nories, nosier, rosein, seroin

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin senior. Doublet of sire, seigneur, and sieur.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /se.nj??/

Noun

senior m (plural seniors)

1. (sports) senior (older player)
2. elderly person

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch senior, from Latin senior (“older”), comparative form of senex (“old”). Doublet of senyur and sinyo

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [s??ni?r]
• Hyphenation: sè?ni?or

Adjective

senior

1. senior
   1. older; superior
   2. higher in rank, dignity, or office.

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

• “senior” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Interlingua

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin senior.

Adjective

senior (comparative plus senior, superlative le plus senior)

1. older

Noun

senior (plural seniors)

1. lord

Latin

Etymology

Comparative of senex.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?se.ni.or/, [?s??ni?r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?se.ni.or/, [?s??ni?r]

Adjective

senior (neuter senius, positive senex); third declension

1. older, elder; rather old

   Antonym: i?nior

Declension

Third-declension comparative adjective.

Noun

senior m (genitive seni?ris); third declension

1. (Medieval Latin) a lord, sir

   Coordinate term: seniorissa

2. (Medieval Latin) an abbot
3. (Medieval Latin) a husband
4. old person, old man, older person, older man

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Related terms

Descendants

References

• senior in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• senior in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• senior in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• senior in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• senior in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700?^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Anagrams

• ?nser?
• ori?ns

Polish

Etymology

From Latin senior (“older”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?.??r/

Noun

senior m pers (feminine seniorka)

1. elder (older person)

Declension

Romanian

Etymology

From French senior.

Adjective

senior m or n (feminine singular senior?, masculine plural seniori, feminine and neuter plural seniore)

1. senior

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin senior. Doublet of señor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /se?njo?/, [se?njo?]

Noun

senior m (plural seniores)

1. senior (clarification of this definition is needed)

English

Alternative forms

• seigniorie, seignorie (both archaic)

Noun

seniory (countable and uncountable, plural seniories)

1. (obsolete) Position as lord, lordship; primacy.
   • c. 1506, Margaret Beaufort (translator), The mirroure of golde for the synfull soule by Denis the Carthusian, London: Richard Pynson, “Of the vayne Ioye might dignite honours and riches of the worlde,”^[1]

     Beholde where is nowe the glorye of kynge assurey: whiche behelde vnder his seignorie and dominacion: the nombre of .xxvi. prouincis

   • c. 1592, William Shakespeare, Richard III, Act IV, Scene 4,^[2]

     If ancient sorrow be most reverend,

     Give mine the benefit of seniory,

     And let my woes frown on the upper hand.

   • 1638, Thomas Herbert, Some Yeares Travels into Divers Parts of Asia and Afrique, London: Jacob Blome & Richard Bishop, Book 1, “The History of the great Mogull,” p. 66,^[3]

     […] the great Mogull […] perceiving Cassimeer interposing and not under him, sends Ally Mirza in Ambassie to Iustoff-cawn (a fearefull King) that if hee would with his sonne forthwith come to Lahore and do homage to him, he should re-accept his seniory and his best power at all times to defend him […]

2. (obsolete) The territory of a lord, dominion.
   • 1565, Arthur Golding, The Eight Bookes of Caius Iulius Cæsar, London: William Seres, “To the Reader,”^[4]

     […] Charles kynge of Fraunce surnamed the great, toke Desiderius laste kinge of Lombardes prisoner and annexed his seniory to the dominion of Fraunce.

   • 1584, Barnabe Rich (translator), The Famous Hystory of Herodotus, London: Thomas Marshe, Book 1, p. 61,^[5]

     The seigniorie also and principality of this part (which the Persians call a Satrapy, that is, a Dutchy or Countey) doth in great measure exceede all other prouinces that are vnder the protection of the great King.

3. (obsolete) Collectively, the lords of a region.
   • 1599, Laurence Aldersey, The first voyage or iourney, made by Master Laurence Aldersey, Marchant of London, to the Cities of Ierusalem, and Tripolis, &c. In the yeere 1581 in Richard Hakluyt (editor), The principal nauigations, voyages, traffiques and discoueries of the English nation, London: George Bishop et al., Volume 2, p. 151,^[6]

     […] if any man bring a letter vnto him, hee may not open it, but in the presence of the Seigniorie, and they are to see it first, which being read, perhaps they will deliuer it to him, perhaps not.

   • 1625, Samuel Purchas (translator), “The Relation of NUNNO di GUSMAN written to CHAREES the fift Emperour; translated out of RAMUSIOS third Tome, and abridged” in Purchas His Pilgrimes, Volume 4, London: Henry Fetherstone, p. 1558,^[7]

     The Seniory of that Prouince (for they had no particular Lord) sent Messengers that they expected mee in peace, and would giue mee what I would […]