seniority
noun
1 seniority
Higher rank than that of others especially by reason of longer service.
synonyms: higher rank, higher status, senior status.
Roget 124:
oldness
etc.
adj.†;
age,
antiquity;
cobwebs of antiquity.
maturity;
decline,
decay;
senility
etc.
128.
seniority,
eldership,
primogeniture.
archaism
etc.
(the past)
122;
thing of the past,
relic of the past;
megatherium†;
Sanskrit.
tradition,
prescription,
custom,
immemorial usage,
common law.
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Dutch: senioriteit
Polish: starszeństwo
2 seniority
The property of being long-lived.
synonym: longevity.
Roget 128:
age;
oldness†
etc.
adj.;
old age,
advanced age,
golden years;
senility,
senescence;
years,
anility†,
gray hairs,
climacteric,
grand climacteric,
declining years,
decrepitude,
hoary age,
caducity†,
superannuation;
second childhood,
second childishness;
dotage;
vale of years,
decline of life,
sear and yellow leaf"
[Macbeth];
threescore years and ten;
green old age,
ripe age;
longevity;
time of life.
seniority,
eldership;
elders
etc.
(veteran)
130;
firstling;
doyen,
father;
primogeniture.
[Science of old age.]
geriatrics,
nostology†.
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Dutch: levensduur
Polish: długowieczność
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