senior

Naija

Etymology

From: English senior

Pronunciation

• sínjɔ̀

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Noun

• Person wey don pass junior level for school.

• Dat senior for grammar school dat year na kura.  — (NSC__Abonyi__2020, That senior student in our secondary school was quite notorious.)
• All di senior sabi oppress junior collect deir food money.  — (NSC__Abonyi__2020, The senior students are fond of bullying the junior students and dispossessing them of their pocket money.)

Adjective

• Na sey person old pass anoder person or get position wey high pass anoder person own.

• Na Ezeudu be senior for this quarter for Umuofia.  — (katakata__576, Ezeudu is an older person in Umuofia.)
• Na im be di most senior pesin wey dem vote for inside our party.  — (bbc__5106, He is the highest ranking person in our party.)
• Dis na di most senior official for Trump government wey go visit Nigeria.  — (bbc__41380, This is the highest ranking official in the Trump administration to visit Nigeria.)

Verb

• Make person age or level pass anoder person own.

• Na everything I use senior you.  — (LAG_22_I-Senior-You_DG__85, I am better than you in every ramification.)
• I senior you.  — (LAG_22_I-Senior-You_DG__86, I am older than you.)
• Dat guy senior me by far.  — (Egbokhare__2020, The guy is much more older than myself.)
• Di woman senior me, but I senior am.  — (LAG_11_Adeniyi-Lifestory_MG__125, She is older than me, but I am superior to her.)
• Di woman go fit warn di man one day sey I senior you o!  — (BEN_37_French-President-Marriage_DG__64, In the future, she could use the fact that is older than her husband as trump!)

Related forms

senior man

Synonyms

• chief

Antonyms

• junior

Translations

• English: older one, superior