elder vs senior
senior vs elderelder and senior both are nouns.
elder and senior both are adjectives.
| Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| elder | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| senior | Yes | Yes | No | No |
As nouns,
elder and senior
are synonyms defined as:
- elder and senior: a person who is older than you are
| elder (noun) | senior (noun) |
|---|---|
| a person who is older than you are | an undergraduate student during the year preceding graduation |
| any of various church officers | a person who is older than you are |
| any of numerous shrubs or small trees of temperate and subtropical Northern Hemisphere having white flowers and berrylike fruit |
| elder (adjective) | senior (adjective) |
|---|---|
| used of the older of two persons of the same name especially used to distinguish a father from his son | older; higher in rank; longer in length of tenure or service |
| used of the fourth and final year in United States high school or college | |
| advanced in years; (`aged' is pronounced as two syllables) |
Words related to "elder"
- American elder
- American red elder
- European elder
- European red elder
- Sambucus
- Sambucus caerulea
- Sambucus canadensis
- Sambucus ebulus
- Sambucus nigra
- Sambucus pubens
- Sambucus racemosa
- actor
- black elder
- black elderberry
- blue elder
- blue elderberry
- bourtree
- bush
- church officer
- common elder
- danewort
- dean
- doer
- doyen
- doyenne
- dwarf elder
- elderberry
- elderberry bush
- eldership
- genus Sambucus
- older
- presbyter
- red-berried elder
- senior
- senpai
- shrub
- sr.
- stinking elder
- sweet elder
- worker
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