senior class
20
2.8
- noun
- /ˈsiːn.jɚ klæs/
- US
:
promoción
- The senior class will hold its graduation ceremony next month.
- junior and senior class
- senior class one year
Thank you, senior class presidents, and thank you most of all seniors and your families.
- Thank you, senior class presidents, and thank you most of all seniors and your families.
- And now to members of our senior class who are receiving their degrees today, Ioffer a special welcome.
Examples
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The senior class is looking for suggestions for original party favors.
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The other girls from my senior class were off at college or working.
Fiction book (1990) -
Um, the entire senior class saw that.
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Vote for Steve for senior class president.
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The newspaper man is here for the senior class photo.
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Results from the survey of the senior class support the findings of the personal interviews.
Academic text (1991) -
Carl ran for senior class president and lost by ten votes.
Academic text (1996) -
And now to members of our senior class who are receiving their degrees today, Ioffer a special welcome.
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The senior class at Allenten High School was large enough to fill the Marriott ballroom.
Fiction book (2001) -
Today, Saturday, is an especially big day because the largest senior class in 20 years—five students—is graduating.
Fiction book (1998)
Synonyms
15
3.0
A group of students who finish their studies in the same year
Antonyms
- US
3
2.1
The year before the final year in high school or college, usually the third of four years
How Advanced
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the group of students in their final year' is directly and transparently derivable from 'senior' (a student in the last year) + 'class' (a set of pupils). This straightforward compositional pattern is common across languages and standard in English noun–noun or adjective–noun combinations, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily understand it.
Etymology
Senior class comes from combining senior, meaning older or higher, and class, a group of students. Imagine students climbing the school years like steps and the last group reaching the top, so the senior class are the students in the 'final year' before they graduate.