SENIORITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does seniority mean? 

• SENIORITY (noun)
  The noun SENIORITY has 2 senses:

1. higher rank than that of others especially by reason of longer service

2. the property of being long-lived

  Familiarity information: SENIORITY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SENIORITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Higher rank than that of others especially by reason of longer service

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

higher rank; higher status; senior status; seniority

Hypernyms ("seniority" is a kind of...):

high status (a position of superior status)

Attribute:

senior (older; higher in rank; longer in length of tenure or service)

junior (younger; lower in rank; shorter in length of tenure or service)

Derivation:

senior (older; higher in rank; longer in length of tenure or service)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The property of being long-lived

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

longevity; seniority

Hypernyms ("seniority" is a kind of...):

oldness (the opposite of youngness)

Derivation:

senior (advanced in years; ('aged' is pronounced as two syllables))

 Context examples 

Denotes a person of advanced education, ability, or seniority employed by an organization.

(On Staff, NCI Thesaurus)

Miss Bennet's lovely face confirmed his views, and established all his strictest notions of what was due to seniority; and for the first evening she was his settled choice.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

She had something to suffer, perhaps, when they came into contact again, in seeing Anne restored to the rights of seniority, and the mistress of a very pretty landaulette; but she had a future to look forward to, of powerful consolation.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

His looks shewing him not pained, but pleased with this allusion to his situation, she was emboldened to go on; and feeling in herself the right of seniority of mind, she ventured to recommend a larger allowance of prose in his daily study; and on being requested to particularize, mentioned such works of our best moralists, such collections of the finest letters, such memoirs of characters of worth and suffering, as occurred to her at the moment as calculated to rouse and fortify the mind by the highest precepts, and the strongest examples of moral and religious endurances.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)