The Collaborative International Dictionary
fourth-year \fourth-year\ adj. of or pertaining to the fourth and final year in a U. S. high school or college.
Syn: senior(prenominal).
WordNet
adj. used of the fourth and final year in United States high school or college; "the senior prom" [syn: senior(a)]
Usage examples of "fourth-year".
At some point during her first year as page, she had learned that second-, third-, and fourth-years wore weighted harnesses, and that more weights were added every four months, but she had never considered it in terms of herself.
Roald of Conté was a fourth-year page, quiet and contained, with his father's very blue eyes and black hair that could have come from either of his parents.
Even the fourth-year pages were not ready for the change, and it was astonishing how much difference an extra pound made.
In another week he would be replacing the lances of the second-, third-, and fourth-year pages with swords two days a week and axes two days a week.
Knights were already walking the pages' wing, inspecting the fourth-years as possible squires.
With people wondering if Alanna the Lioness had cheated to win her shield, King Roald had wanted to ensure that anyone could see for himself that fourth-year pages knew their work and were fit to be squires.
These tests, the big exams, were longer and harder than those given to the third-years, but again it was material the fourth-years were expected to know.
Sunday nights, during the first bell after supper, I wish the fourth-year pages to report here.
The third and fourth-year pages were to learn how to fight in groups of different sizes.
The combinations would change from day to day: three third-years against two fourth-years, four fourth-years against five third-years, or simple battle, one-on-one.
He named a group that included Kel, Neal, Quinden, Merric, Faleron, Yancen, Balduin of Disart, another fourth-year, and Quinden's friend Dermid of Josu's Dirk.
In January, Lord Wyldon moved six of the fourth-year pages who could reliably hit the target to Kel's quintain and changed Kel's program.
That night the fourth-years rose from their tables to walk to the squires' side of the room as their comrades applauded and cheered.
He then shifted other fourth-years to the ring once they were able to hit the small black dot on the quintain target.
No sooner had the senior pages adjusted to them than Lord Wyldon set the fourth-years to tilting at each other.