Elder vs. Senior — What's the Difference?

(of one or more out of a group of associated people) of a greater age

Of or for older or more experienced people

People who are older than one

High or higher in rank or status

A leader or senior figure in a tribe or other group

A person who is a specified number of years older than someone else

A small tree or shrub with pithy stems, white flowers, and bluish-black or red berries.

Abbr. Sr. Of or being the older of two, especially the older of two persons having the same name, as father and son.

Greater than another in age or seniority.

Of or relating to senior citizens.

(Archaic) Superior to another or others, as in rank.

Being in a position, rank, or grade above others of the same set or class

An older person.

Having precedence in making certain decisions.

An older, influential member of a family, tribe, or community.

Of or relating to the fourth and last year of high school or college

One of the governing officers of a church, often having pastoral or teaching functions.

Relating to or being a class of corporate debt that has priority with respect to interest and principal over other classes of debt and equity by the same issuer.

Mormon Church A member of the higher order of priesthood.

A person who is older than another

See elderberry.

A senior citizen.

Inflection of old: older, greater than another in age or seniority.

One that is of a higher position, rank, or grade than another in the same set or class.

An older person or an older member, usually a leader, of some community.

A student in the fourth year of high school or college.

One who is older than another.

Older; superior

One who lived at an earlier period; a predecessor.

Higher in rank, dignity, or office.

An officer of a church, sometimes having teaching responsibilities.

(US) Of or pertaining to a student's final academic year at a high school (twelfth grade) or university.

A clergyman authorized to administer all the sacraments.

An old person.

One ordained to the lowest office in the Melchizedek priesthood.

Someone older than someone else (with possessive).

Male missionary.

Someone seen as deserving respect or reverence because of their age.

Title for a male missionary; title for a general authority.

An elder or presbyter in the early Church.

(Germanic paganism) A pagan or Heathen priest or priestess.

Somebody who is higher in rank, dignity, or office.

A small tree, Sambucus nigra, having white flowers in a cluster, and edible purple berries

A final-year student at a high school or university.

Any of the other species of the genus Sambucus: small trees, shrubs or herbaceous perennials with red, purple, or white/yellow berries (some of which are poisonous).

More advanced than another in age; prior in age; elder; hence, more advanced in dignity, rank, or office; superior; as, senior member; senior counsel.

A cow's udder, especially used as food.

Belonging to the final year of the regular course in American colleges, or in professional schools.

(Quakerism) To admonish or reprove for improper conduct by the elders of the meeting.

A person who is older than another; one more advanced in life.

Older; more aged, or existing longer.

One older in office, or whose entrance upon office was anterior to that of another; one prior in grade.

Born before another; prior in years; senior; earlier; older; as, his elder brother died in infancy; - opposed to younger, and now commonly applied to a son, daughter, child, brother, etc.

An aged person; an older.

One who is older; a superior in age; a senior.

One in the fourth or final year of his collegiate course at an American college; - originally called senior sophister; also, one in the last year of the course at a professional schools or at a seminary.

An aged person; one who lived at an earlier period; a predecessor.

An undergraduate student during the year preceding graduation

A person who, on account of his age, occupies the office of ruler or judge; hence, a person occupying any office appropriate to such as have the experience and dignity which age confers; as, the elders of Israel; the elders of the synagogue; the elders in the apostolic church.

A person who is older than you are

A clergyman authorized to administer all the sacraments; as, a traveling elder.

Older; higher in rank; longer in length of tenure or service;

A genus of shrubs (Sambucus) having broad umbels of white flowers, and small black or red berries.

Used of the fourth and final year in United States high school or college;

A person who is older than you are

Advanced in years; (`aged' is pronounced as two syllables);

Any of numerous shrubs or small trees of temperate and subtropical northern hemisphere having white flowers and berrylike fruit

Any of various church officers

Used of the older of two persons of the same name especially used to distinguish a father from his son;

Older brother or sister;