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 Access is included with standard garden admission, which costs $18 for adults, $14 for seniors or students and $8 for children ages 3 to 12. — Pedro Moura, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2026 Open enrollment also comes as inflation adds pressure on seniors whose healthcare costs have risen and as midterm elections are weeks away. — ABC News, 15 Oct. 2026 Newsom wanted to lower the amount of assets that seniors and disabled adults can have and still be eligible for coverage from $130,000 to $2,000. — Stephen Hobbs, Sacbee.com, 15 Oct. 2026 But critics complain that the cost-of-living adjustment doesn't reflect seniors' actual expenses, which often include higher costs for healthcare. — Scott Horsley, NPR, 14 Oct. 2026 The primary market is adults who want to downsize large one-family houses and relocate to a home expressly designed for seniors. — Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 14 Oct. 2026 Hosey said her experience in education and local government work involving seniors has convinced her that Congress needs to prioritize programs aimed at reducing the cost of housing, food, utilities and child care. — Erika Gonzalez, CBS News, 14 Oct. 2026 An additional 140,000 Florida seniors enrolled in Medicare for 2027. — Cindy Krischer Goodman, Sun Sentinel, 14 Oct. 2026 The president also announced earlier this month that his administration would send $90 checks to 20 million seniors enrolled in Medicare to offset premium costs. — Sarah Davis, The Hill, 14 Oct. 2026

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Noun

The changes would have affected the environments in which life developed and evolved, from the age of the dinosaurs through to some of our oldest primate ancestors.

— Keith Cooper, Space.com, 13 Oct. 2026
In his view, Flagg Mountain’s fire-scarred stumps corroborate what his community already knew—that their ancestors used fire for centuries—and reinforce their sense of responsibility to care for the land.

— M. R. O’Connor, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026

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But after Dougan raised the concerns, the lawsuit says, his superiors took disciplinary action against him.

— Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 30 Sep. 2026
Reuveni, who had been promoted to serve as the acting deputy director for the Office of Immigration Litigation, warned his superiors that the government might be in violation of the court order.

— Eyal Press, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026

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Fawn Youngbear-Tibbetts, the group's executive director, said then that recordings of elders' stories on old tapes were likely melted.

— Eric Henderson, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2026
Ethnographic accounts from native elders describe how during unique warm-water events in late summer, people voyaged out at night into the fjords, aided by natural bioluminescent plankton.

— Torben Rick, The Conversation, 12 Oct. 2026

Definition of elders

Noun

Kevin Mayer, the Candle co-founder, has also lamented that digital creators are the future of Hollywood, which could put pressure on some of Candle’s holdings, which have tended to rely on Hollywood veterans like Witherspoon.

— Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 13 Oct. 2026
There are more training programs, money is going towards new creative voices, and successful veterans are seeing their biggest and boldest ideas backed with the capital to make noise.

— Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 12 Oct. 2026

Definition of veterans

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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

On Friday, deans and faculty in academic regalia processed into Alumni Park, where the Trojan Marching Band accompanied the national anthem as temperatures climbed toward the 90s during the nearly two-hour ceremony.

— Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2026
The university says that Glover, in his position as executive advisor, will work with the gamut of university leadership, including the president, provost and college deans.

— Josh Dinner, Space.com, 15 Sep. 2026

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