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senior

/ˈsinjɚ/ noun A2
  1. An old person. (US)
  2. Someone older than someone else (with possessive). · He was four years her senior.
  3. Someone seen as deserving respect or reverence because of their age.
  4. Somebody who is higher in rank, dignity, or office.
  5. A final-year student at a high school or university; a finalist. (US)

Plural seniors

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The cubs tumbled over each other in the center of the circle where their mothers and fathers sat, and now and again a senior wolf would go quietly up to a cub, look at him carefully, and return to his place on noiseless feet.
The Jungle Book, p. 8 · B2
He has kept our Law”; and at last the seniors of the Pack thundered: “Let the Dead Wolf speak.” When a leader of the Pack has missed his kill, he is called the Dead Wolf as long as he lives, which is not long.
The Jungle Book, p. 22 · B2
That evening Miss Barry gave Diana a silver bangle bracelet and told the senior members of the household that she had unpacked her valise.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 157 · C1
“The senior clerk and draughtsman, Mr.
Sherlock Holmes: The Bruce-Partington Plans, p. 10 · B2

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