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DictionaryEnglish - Myanmar
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senior

/ˈsiːnɪə/

US pronunciation
American sound/ˈsiːnɪə/
senior
Syllables
2 syllables
Stress
1st syllable stress
Vowel
Schwa vowel
Ending
Final r is pronounced in US English

se - nior -> senior

Myanmar meaning

(adj) ရာထူးကြီး (n) အသက်အားဖြင့်ကြီးသူ

Full entry

senior /'si:niǝ(r)/ adj

၁။ ~ (to sb ) ရာထူး၊ အဆင့်အားဖြင့်မြင့်သော။ a senior staff meeting ❍ a senior lecturer ❍ He is the senior partner in the firm. ❍ She is senior to me, because she joined the company before me.
၂။ (အထူးသဖြင့် အားကစားတွင်) အသက် ၁၈-နှစ် အထက်ဖြစ်သော။ take part in senior competitions ❍ He won his first senior cap as a 20-year- old.
၃။ (often Senior, abbr Snr ) အမည်တူသားအဖတွင် အဖအမည်နှင့်သုံးသော(ပုဒ်)။ John Brown Senior.
၄။ (Brit ) အသက်၁၁-နှစ် အထက်တို့အတွက်(ကျောင်း)။ Compare JUNIOR
n
၁။ (အသက်အားဖြင့်)ကြီးသူ။ She is my senior by two years/two years my senior.
၂။ (Brit ) ကျောင်းသားကြီး။ စီနီယာကျောင်းသား။ The seniors are allowed into town during the lunch hour.
၃။ (US ) (အထက်တန်းကျောင်း၊ ကောလိပ်) နောက်ဆုံးနှစ်ကျောင်းသား။
❏ senior citizen n (euph ) သက်ကြီးဝါကြီး။
❏ seniority /si:ni'ɒrǝti; US -'ↄ:r-/ n [U]
၁။ အသက်အား ဖြင့်၊ အရာအားဖြင့် ကြီးခြင်း။ ဝါရင့်ခြင်း။ Should promotion be based on merit or seniority?
၂။ ရာထူးသက်ကြီးခြင်း။ ဝါရင့်ခြင်း။ a doctor with five years' seniority over his colleague.

More examples
  • A senior officer/teacher/manager
  • [senior to] : There are only two posts that are senior to mine.
  • Only senior students can leave the premises at lunchtime.
  • The senior competition
  • The career of Douglas Fairbanks Senior
Synonyms
older, elder, OAP, above, ancient, big brother, big sister, boss, chief, director, doyen, doyenne, elder sibling, elderly person, eldest, first-born, golden ager, golden-ager, grandfather, grandmother, head, high-grade, high-ranking, high-up, higher, higher-up, leader, leading, major, manager, matriarch, more advanced, next higher, old folk, old-timer, older person, oldest, oldster, over, patriarch, pensioner, primary, retired person, senior citizen, superior
Antonyms
behind, inferior, junior, minor, unimportant, younger
Cross references
olderelderOAPaboveancientbig brotherbig sisterbosschiefdirectordoyendoyenneelder siblingelderly personeldestfirst-borngolden agergolden-agergrandfathergrandmotherheadhigh-gradehigh-rankinghigh-uphigherhigher-upleaderleading
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