| Main Entry: | seniority |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rank in organization due to length of service |
Synonyms: |
advantage, antiquity, eldership, precedence, preference, priority, rank, ranking, standing, station, superiority |
| Main Entry: | age |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | period of animate existence |
Synonyms: |
adolescence, adulthood, boyhood, childhood, dotage, elderliness, girlhood, infancy, life, lifetime, majority, maturity, middle age, milestone, old age, senility, seniority, wear and tear, youth |
| Notes: | epoch applies to the beginning of a new period marked by radical changes and new developments - while era applies to the entire period; age denotes a period identified with some dominant personality or characteristic and period pertains to any portion of time |
| Main Entry: | dominion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | area of rule; authority |
Synonyms: |
ascendancy, authorization, bailiwick, command, commission, control, country, demesne, district, domain, dominance, domination, empire, enclave, field, government, jurisdiction, management, power, preeminence, prepotence, prepotency, prerogative, privilege, property, province, realm, regency, regiment, regimentation, region, reign, rule, seniority, sovereignty, sphere, state, stomping grounds, supremacy, sway, terrain, territory, turf, walk |
Antonyms: |
outside |
| Main Entry: | majority |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | adulthood |
Synonyms: |
age of consent, drinking age, estate, full age, legal maturity, manhood, maturity, prime, prime of life, ripe age, seniority, voting age, womanhood |
Antonyms: |
adolescence, childhood, minority, underage |
| Main Entry: | old age |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | period of being elderly |
Synonyms: |
advancing years, age, agedness, autumn of life, caducity, debility, declining years, decrepitude, dotage, elderliness, evening of life, feebleness, geriatrics, golden age, golden years, infirmity, latter part of animate life, longevity, oldness, retirement age, second childhood, senectitude, senescence, senility, seniority, winter of life, years |
Antonyms: |
adolescence, childhood, infancy, youth |
| Main Entry: | precedence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | highest in rank; first in order |
Synonyms: |
antecedence, anteposition, earliness, lead, precedency, precession, preeminence, preexistence, preference, prevenience, previousness, primary, priority, rank, seniority, superiority, supremacy |
Antonyms: |
inferiority, last, lowest |
| Main Entry: | priority |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | first concern |
Synonyms: |
antecedence, arrangement, crash project, greatest importance, lead, order, precedence, preeminence, preference, prerogative, previousness, rank, right of way, seniority, superiority, supremacy, transcendence |
Antonyms: |
unimportance |
| Main Entry: | rank |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | standing in a system, often a social one |
Synonyms: |
ancestry, authority, birth, blood, cachet, capacity, caste, circumstance, class, classification, condition, consequence, degree, dignity, distinction, division, echelon, estate, esteem, family, footing, grade, hierarchy, level, nobility, note, order, paramountcy, parentage, pecking order, pedigree, place, position, primacy, privilege, quality, reputation, seniority, situation, slot, sort, sovereignty, sphere, state, station, stature, status, stock, stratum, supremacy, type |
| Main Entry: | agedness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | age |
Synonyms: |
elderliness, golden years, old age, oldness, senectitude, senescence, seniority |
| Main Entry: | elderliness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | age |
Synonyms: |
agedness, aging, oldness, senectitude, senescence, seniority |