how to pronounce senior

/ˈsiː.ni.əɹ/

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the above transcription of senior is a detailed (narrow) transcription according to the rules of the International Phonetic Association; you can find a description of each symbol by clicking the phoneme buttons in the secction below.

senior is pronounced in three syllables

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An example use of senior in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… Cambridge I'm also a senior fellow in …”

meaning of senior

Senior means older than someone else.

senior frequency in english - A2 level of CEFR

the word senior occurs in english on average 83.8 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for A2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics senior can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that senior can be often used in the following areas:

1) people, society, and culture;