senior

Definitions

1. 1.Belonging to the final year of the regular course in American colleges, or in professional schools.
2. 2.A person who is older than another; one more advanced in life.
3. 3.One older in office, or whose entrance upon office was anterior to that of another; one prior in grade.
4. 4.An aged person; an older. Dryden. Each village senior paused to scan, And speak the lovely caravan. Emerson.
5. 5.One in the fourth or final year of his collegiate course at an American college; -- originally called senior sophister; also, one in the last year of the course at a professional schools or at a seminary.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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• What is belonging to the final year of the regular course in American colleges, or in professional schools called?
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