Literary notes about senior (AI summary)
In literature, the term “senior” is employed in a variety of ways to indicate superior rank, greater experience, or advanced age. It can designate a person’s higher status within a professional hierarchy, as seen in the portrayal of a senior surgeon whose connections prove decisive ([1]) or a senior officer whose authority shapes military command ([2], [3]). The term also marks generational or hierarchical differences in social and academic contexts, such as in references to senior classes or elder family members ([4], [5], [6]). Moreover, “senior” often conveys respect and longstanding tradition in roles ranging from scholarly positions ([7]) to institutional leadership ([8], [9]), underscoring its versatility as a marker of both authority and precedence in narrative settings.
- It did not generally carry a doctor, but one of the senior surgeons at the hospital knew a director of the line, and Abraham was taken as a favour.
— from The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham - Barclay donned his sash and came out to meet and report to his senior officer Bagratión.
— from War and Peace by graf Leo Tolstoy - At that time he was my senior in rank and there was no authority of law to assign a junior to command a senior of the same grade.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. Grant - ‘It is a very impertinent question,’ laughed I, ‘from a young girl to a married woman so many years her senior, and I shall not answer it.’
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë - In 1815 was a student in the “first,” or as it was called later, the “senior” department of the R.M. College (which dept.
— from The Waterloo Roll Call by Charles Dalton - In his senior year, he learned of a scholarship in the University of London offered for competition by the students of Canadian colleges.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden - The senior scholars, transported with envy against Abelard , seconded their master's resentment.
— from Letters of Abelard and Heloise by Peter Abelard and Héloïse - The six princes are all mentioned, Diocletian and Maximian as the senior Augusti, and fathers of the emperors.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon - The Senior Warden will take the Master's place and preside over the lodge, while his seat will be temporarily filled from time to time by appointment.
— from The Principles of Masonic Law by Albert Gallatin Mackey
