Senior vs. Specialist — What's the Difference?

Of or for older or more experienced people

A person who concentrates primarily on a particular subject or activity; a person highly skilled in a specific and restricted field

High or higher in rank or status

Possessing or involving detailed knowledge or study of a restricted topic

A person who is a specified number of years older than someone else

One who is devoted to a particular occupation or branch of study or research

Abbr. Sr. Of or being the older of two, especially the older of two persons having the same name, as father and son.

A physician whose practice is limited to a particular branch of medicine or surgery, especially one who is certified by a board of physicians

Of or relating to senior citizens.

Any of several noncommissioned ranks in the US Army that correspond to that of corporal through sergeant first class.

Being in a position, rank, or grade above others of the same set or class

A species with narrow habitat or food requirements

Having precedence in making certain decisions.

(British) Specialised, involving detailed knowledge of a restricted topic.

Of or relating to the fourth and last year of high school or college

Someone who is an expert in, or devoted to, some specific branch of study or research.

Relating to or being a class of corporate debt that has priority with respect to interest and principal over other classes of debt and equity by the same issuer.

(medicine) A physician whose practice is limited to a particular branch of medicine or surgery.

A person who is older than another

Any of several non-commissioned ranks corresponding to that of corporal.

A senior citizen.

An organism that is specialized for a particular environment.

One that is of a higher position, rank, or grade than another in the same set or class.

A stenotopic species.

A student in the fourth year of high school or college.

One who devotes himself to some specialty; as, a medical specialist, one who devotes himself to diseases of particular parts of the body, as the eye, the ear, the nerves, etc.

Older; superior

An expert who is devoted to one occupation or branch of learning

Higher in rank, dignity, or office.

Practices one branch of medicine

(US) Of or pertaining to a student's final academic year at a high school (twelfth grade) or university.

An old person.

Someone older than someone else (with possessive).

Someone seen as deserving respect or reverence because of their age.

An elder or presbyter in the early Church.

Somebody who is higher in rank, dignity, or office.

A final-year student at a high school or university.

More advanced than another in age; prior in age; elder; hence, more advanced in dignity, rank, or office; superior; as, senior member; senior counsel.

Belonging to the final year of the regular course in American colleges, or in professional schools.

A person who is older than another; one more advanced in life.

One older in office, or whose entrance upon office was anterior to that of another; one prior in grade.

An aged person; an older.

One in the fourth or final year of his collegiate course at an American college; - originally called senior sophister; also, one in the last year of the course at a professional schools or at a seminary.

An undergraduate student during the year preceding graduation

A person who is older than you are

Older; higher in rank; longer in length of tenure or service;

Used of the fourth and final year in United States high school or college;

Advanced in years; (`aged' is pronounced as two syllables);