Seniority

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Seniority \Sen*ior"i*ty\, n.
     The quality or state of being senior.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  seniority
       n 1: higher rank than that of others especially by reason of
            longer service [syn: {senior status}, {higher status}, {higher
            rank}]
       2: the property of being long-lived [syn: {longevity}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  67 Moby Thesaurus words for "seniority":
     aboriginality, accomplishment, age, ancien regime, ancientness,
     antiquity, ascendancy, atavism, authority, cobwebs of antiquity,
     consequence, deanship, dust of ages, eld, elderliness, eldership,
     eminence, excellence, favor, great age, greatness, hoary age,
     hoary eld, importance, incomparability, influence, influentialness,
     inimitability, inveteracy, lead, majority, moment, old age,
     old order, old style, oldness, one-upmanship, precedence,
     predominance, predomination, preeminence, preponderance,
     prepotence, prepotency, prerogative, pressure, prestige,
     primitiveness, primogeniture, primordialism, primordiality,
     priority, privilege, prominence, rank, right-of-way, senility,
     skill, stature, success, superiority, transcendence, transcendency,
     venerableness, virtuosity, weight, weightiness