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===Frequency===
 
* Frequency in NSC treebank: 10
 
* Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 709
 
* Frequency in raw corpus: 449
 
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===Noun===
 
===Noun===

Revision as of 08:55, 16 July 2021

Naija

Etymology

From: English senior

Pronunciation

  • sínjɔ̀

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Noun

Na 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 their 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

Sey 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, senior team

Synonyms

Antonyms

Translations

  • English: older one, superior