Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: senior
IPA transcription: [s'injÉš]
Pronunciations of senior
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adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: senior
    Meaning: older; higher in rank; longer in length of tenure or service; "senior officer"
  • Synonyms: senior(a), fourth-year
    Meaning: used of the fourth and final year in United States high school or college; "the senior prom"
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: senior
    Meaning: an undergraduate student during the year preceding graduation
Usage examples
  • A pretty senior you must be, if you do."
  • Mr. Balderby opened both ledgers, and placed them before his senior partner.
  • "Suppose it should turn out to have been a senior, Mr. Gaunt?" spoke Bywater.
  • In January, 1843, he graduated as Senior Wrangler, and shortly afterwards he set to work.
  • "There'll be a great gnashing of senior teeth after the game," remarked Nora confidently.
  • What's a thousand or so, more or less, to the senior partner in the house of D., D., and B.?
  • Graduated from West Point, senior cadet captain. Sent to southwest as second-lieutenant, 6th cavalry. 1891.
  • Mr. Gould, senior, defended himself from this fatal favour with many arguments and entreaties, but without success.
  • Charles feared that Mr. Gould, senior, was wasting his strength and making himself ill by his efforts to get rid of the Concession.
  • The new senior, Huntley, lived too far off for his lumbago; so he turned his steps to the next senior's, Tom Channing, and demanded to see him.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Space Race, License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Icos, License CC BY-SA 4.0
2. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Imperial Airlines Flight 201/8, License CC BY-SA 4.0
3. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording J. R. R. Tolkien, License CC BY-SA 4.0
4. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording X Article, License CC BY-SA 4.0
5. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Hillary Clinton, License CC BY-SA 4.0
6. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording The West Wing, License CC BY-SA 4.0
7. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Aggie Bonfire, License CC BY-SA 4.0
8. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Harold B. Lee, License CC BY-SA 4.0