Synonym: older, senior. Antonym: junior, younger. Similar words: elderly, builder, shareholder, wilderness, bewilderment, yield, field, wander. Meaning: ['eldə] n. 1. a person who is older than you are 2. any of numerous shrubs or small trees of temperate and subtropical northern hemisphere having white flowers and berrylike fruit 3. any of various church officers. adj. used of the older of two persons of the same name especially used to distinguish a father from his son.
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31. Of the two brothers Harvey is the elder.
32. He is one of the medical profession's elder statesmen.
33. His elder brother is a sergeant.
34. Sarah is the elder of the two.
35. She shouldn't entreat her elder like that.
36. The elder son has precedence over the younger one.
37. He hero-worships his elder brother.
38. Janet's sister was eight years her elder.
39. He was the elder of her two sons.
40. My elder sister lives in Canada.
41. My elder brother always remembers me at the spring festival.
42. The foolish king raised an army against his elder brother.
43. Mr.Smith is taking over the business which belongs with his elder brother.
44. At once I picked out my elder brother in the crowd.
45. His elder sister had been his guide, counsellor and friend.
46. Some of the elder students walk over the younger ones.
47. Tom is the second son he has an elder brother.
48. Her elder daughter, in whom she placed the greatest trust,[sentencedict.com] failed to match her expectations.
49. Political power resided with the nation's elder statesman and party leader.
50. He was first introduced to drugs by his elder brother.
51. Clare's close resemblance to his elder sister invoked a deep dislike in him.
52. The boy agrees that his elder sister is much clever than him.
53. She made liberal use of her elder sister's make-up and clothes.
54. He was in his late eighties and had become the country's most respected elder statesman.
55. Jim was beginning to argue wildly again,getting his facts wrong,so his elder brother cut him down.
56. She hero-worshipped her elder brother, and she was devastated when he died.
57. He exhorted his elder.
58. My little grandson is no trouble at all, but his 6-year-old elder sister is rude and selfish.
59. The elder people and children always lag behind when we go for a walk.
60. You mustn't run to your elder brother with every problem.