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单词 senior common room
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Definition of senior common room in English:

senior common room

noun
British
  • 1A room used for social purposes by fellows, lecturers, and other senior members of a college.

    〈英〉(大学的)教员公用室

    Example sentencesExamples
    • We also had a sneaking admiration for him because he used to have lunch in the student canteen rather than go upstairs to the senior common room where all the other teachers went.
    • You're supposed to sit around in the coffee shop or the senior common room, arguing long into the night about the significance of these devices.
    • Some time in my first year on the LSE staff, I ran into Harry in the senior common room and he reminded me of the point I had made to him about Viner's trade diversion when we had first met.
    • Tripping over a rug in the Christ's College senior common room, I rose to find myself face to face with Harold Macmillan's whiskers.
    • After the dining hall, high table moved to the senior common room upstairs.
    Synonyms
    university teacher, lecturer, university lecturer, fellow, professor, reader, lector, college tutor, academic, scholar
    1. 1.1treated as singular or plural The senior members of a college regarded collectively.
      总称(大学的)老学长
      his involvement with Darwin and other staff in the senior common room
      Example sentencesExamples
      • And then Anne Sayre in, I think, her American way misinterpreted the fact that women weren't allowed in the senior common room at Kings.
      • Students and members of the senior common room get a discount so wouldn't have paid £3.65 for a main course.
      • That could prove interesting in the senior common rooms.
      • Teeth gnashed in senior common rooms: could the university not support one expert in Sogdian?
      • Legend has it that he once decked an obnoxious colleague in the senior common room (something that many academics dream of, but usually don't have the nerve actually to do).

Definition of senior common room in US English:

senior common room

nounˈsinjər ˈkɑmən rum
British
  • 1A room used for social purposes by fellows, lecturers, and other senior members of a college.

    〈英〉(大学的)教员公用室

    Example sentencesExamples
    • You're supposed to sit around in the coffee shop or the senior common room, arguing long into the night about the significance of these devices.
    • We also had a sneaking admiration for him because he used to have lunch in the student canteen rather than go upstairs to the senior common room where all the other teachers went.
    • Some time in my first year on the LSE staff, I ran into Harry in the senior common room and he reminded me of the point I had made to him about Viner's trade diversion when we had first met.
    • Tripping over a rug in the Christ's College senior common room, I rose to find myself face to face with Harold Macmillan's whiskers.
    • After the dining hall, high table moved to the senior common room upstairs.
    Synonyms
    university teacher, lecturer, university lecturer, fellow, professor, reader, lector, college tutor, academic, scholar
    1. 1.1treated as singular or plural The senior members of a college regarded collectively.
      总称(大学的)老学长
      his involvement with Darwin and other staff in the senior common room
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Students and members of the senior common room get a discount so wouldn't have paid £3.65 for a main course.
      • And then Anne Sayre in, I think, her American way misinterpreted the fact that women weren't allowed in the senior common room at Kings.
      • That could prove interesting in the senior common rooms.
      • Legend has it that he once decked an obnoxious colleague in the senior common room (something that many academics dream of, but usually don't have the nerve actually to do).
      • Teeth gnashed in senior common rooms: could the university not support one expert in Sogdian?
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