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Elder

adjective

Used of the older of two persons of the same name especially used to distinguish a father from his son. Synonyms: older, sr..

noun

A person who is older than you are. Synonym: senior.

Any of numerous shrubs or small trees of temperate and subtropical northern hemisphere having white flowers and berrylike fruit. Synonym: elderberry bush.

Any of various church officers.

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... been to anyone—but he saw that she preferred her own company to his; and so, much to the disgust of Mr. Longworth, he spent most of his time at cards in the smoking-room, whereas, according to the elder gentleman's opinion, he should have been promenading the ...

— A Woman Intervenes • Robert Barr

... in the school, I think, swarmed across the river with us when we started away early in the morning, and the elder ones ran with the sled along the portage, mile after mile, until I turned them back lest they be ...

— Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled - A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska • Hudson Stuck

... Presbyterians are quite agreed in maintaining that the terms "bishop" or overseer, and "presbyter" or elder, were synonymous in the pure or primitive Church, and applied indifferently to the same persons, and that prelacy and all its developments were subsequent corruptions. The peculiar tenet of independency, distinguishing it from Presbyterianism, consists in ...

— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11 • Various

... opposite to those of Asia. That of one female associating her fate and fortune with all the brothers of a family, without any restriction of age or numbers. The choice of a wife is the privilege of the elder brother; and singular as it may seem, a Thibetan wife is as jealous of her connubial rites as ever the despot of an Indian Zenana is of the favours of ...

— Diary of a Pedestrian in Cashmere and Thibet • by William Henry Knight

... grew more and more clear that Peter was as strong as his poor stepbrother Ivan was weak, and in order to satisfy the people the younger boy was made joint-Czar with the elder. ...

— Historic Boyhoods • Rupert Sargent Holland

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