SENIORS Synonyms: 73 Similar and Opposite Words

seniors

noun

plural of senior

as in ancestors

one who is older than another since the man next door is my senior by a number of years, I always address him as "Mr. Barton"

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as in superiors

one who is above another in rank, station, or office the young attorney benefited from the mentorship of one of his seniors at the firm

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as in elders

the senior member of a group when he retires, she will be the senior on the faculty

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as in adults

a person of advanced years weekday movie matinees are often popular with seniors

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Recent Examples of seniors Fast-food staples like McDonald’s became a low-cost refuge where seniors lingered over morning coffee, students gathered after school and young kids frolicked in play areas. — Jessica Guynn, USA Today, 16 Sep. 2026 Designed for juniors and seniors, the program will have a particular emphasis on high-achieving community college transfer students. — Tarini Mehta, Sacbee.com, 16 Sep. 2026 Iglesias said seniors must be at least 60 years old to participate. — Veronica Egui Brito, Miami Herald, 16 Sep. 2026 Access is included with garden admission, which costs $29 for adults, $24 for seniors, students and military, or $13 for children ages 4-11. — Pedro Moura, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2026 The 6-foot 1, 210-pounds Little is one of seven seniors who are three-year starters for the Knights. — Rick Armstrong, Chicago Tribune, 15 Sep. 2026 Florida Pace Centers provides medical care and support services to help seniors remain in their communities rather than move into nursing homes. — Najahe Sherman, CBS News, 15 Sep. 2026 But now, since his twin sons Carson and Carter James are seniors, the 2026 season will be their last sharing the field together. — Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 Sep. 2026

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Noun

Eagle hopes to use the same technique to suss out the body temperatures of avian dinosaurs and ancient mammalian ancestors next.

— Mary Randolph, Scientific American, 16 Sep. 2026
The group includes people whose ancestors come from Spain, Mexico, the Caribbean and Central and South America.

— ABC News, ABC News, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of ancestors

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The series begins during a police intervention in which two officers shoot an unarmed teenager and decide to conceal what happened from their superiors.

— Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 16 Sep. 2026
Bartholow reported to her superiors at SEIU California that Regan stood uncomfortably close and hovered over her at the bar at a fundraiser for the state Senate leader in San Diego in March as tensions flared over the billionaire tax.

— Taryn Luna, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of superiors

Noun

Clemishire, along with her father, filed a $1 million defamation suit in Dallas County against Morris, his wife, Debbie, the church, its current and former elders, and a church staff member.

— Matthew Ablon, CBS News, 16 Sep. 2026
And Democratic elders, including former President Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, have urged their party to treat the threats posed by AI as an acute national security crisis.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of elders

Noun

What’s Happening Roughly one in three American adults has already tried sleeping apart from a partner, either in a separate bed or a separate room, according to a survey from the American Academy of Sleep Medicine.

— Lauren Schuster, Sacbee.com, 18 Sep. 2026
This choice was meant to reflect the sedentary behavior that adults engage in every day.

— Amber Raiken, Verywell Health, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of adults

Noun

The hospital complex in San Francisco was ranked top nationally in several specialties as well, including geriatrics, pulmonology — the treatment of respiratory conditions — and lung surgery.

— Grant Stringer, Mercury News, 4 Aug. 2026
The report rated hospital performance in 14 specialties or specialty areas, ranging from cancer to geriatrics to urology.

— Anne Ewbank, Sacbee.com, 4 Aug. 2026

Definition of geriatrics

Noun

His boyish looks notwithstanding, Kiernan is now one of the deans of New York television, approaching his 30th year on NY1.

— Dade Hayes, Deadline, 11 Sep. 2026
Each academic school hosts their own ceremony, with students attending various departments — plus deans and senior leadership — all clad in their cardinal and gold regalia, marching behind their banners across the campus.

— Staff report, Daily News, 20 Aug. 2026

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