Senior vs. Young — What's the Difference?

Of or for older or more experienced people

Having lived or existed for only a short time

High or higher in rank or status

Used to denote the younger of two people of the same name

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

Offspring, especially of an animal before or soon after birth

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

Being in an early period of life, development, or growth.

Of or relating to senior citizens.

Newly begun or formed; not advanced

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

Relating to, typical of, or suggestive of youth or early life

Having precedence in making certain decisions.

Lacking experience; immature

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

Being the junior of two people having the same name.

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.

(Geology) Being of an early stage in a geologic cycle. Used of bodies of water and land formations.

A person who is older than another

Young persons considered as a group; youth

A senior citizen.

Offspring; brood

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

In the early part of growth or life; born not long ago.

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

At an early stage of existence or development; having recently come into existence.

Older; superior

(Not) advanced in age; (far towards or) at a specified stage of existence or age.

Higher in rank, dignity, or office.

Junior (of two related people with the same name).

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

(of a decade of life) Early.

An old person.

Youthful; having the look or qualities of a young person.

Someone older than someone else (with possessive).

Of or belonging to the early part of life.

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

(obsolete) Having little experience; inexperienced; unpracticed; ignorant; weak.

An elder or presbyter in the early Church.

(often as if a plural noun) Offspring, especially the immature offspring of animals.

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

To become or seem to become younger.

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

To cause to appear younger.

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

(geology) To exhibit younging.

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

Not long born; still in the first part of life; not yet arrived at adolescence, maturity, or age; not old; juvenile; - said of animals; as, a young child; a young man; a young fawn.

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

Being in the first part, pr period, of growth; as, a young plant; a young tree.

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

Having little experience; inexperienced; unpracticed; ignorant; weak.

An aged person; an older.

The offspring of animals, either a single animal or offspring collectively.

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.

Any immature animal

An undergraduate student during the year preceding graduation

United States film and television actress (1913-2000)

A person who is older than you are

United States civil rights leader (1921-1971)

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

British physicist and Egyptologist; he revived the wave theory of light and proposed a three-component theory of color vision; he also played an important role in deciphering the hieroglyphics on the Rosetta Stone (1773-1829)

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

United States jazz tenor saxophonist (1909-1959)

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

English poet (1683-1765)

United States baseball player and famous pitcher (1867-1955)

United States religious leader of the Mormon Church after the assassination of Joseph Smith; he led the Mormon exodus from Illinois to Salt Lake City, Utah (1801-1877)

Young people collectively;

(used of living things especially persons) in an early period of life or development or growth;

(of crops) harvested at an early stage of development; before complete maturity;