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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91. In character he was very different from his dead elder brother.
92. They had two sons, the elder of whom died in a motor accident in 1960.
93. Also present were Bracy Clark and his elder brother, Henry.
94. It was initially his elder brother, Sir Richard Damory, who was more prominent.
95. Two of the pioneers of X-ray diffraction were William Bragg and his elder son, Lawrence.
96. Eventually a letter arrived from London in response to Moran's exasperated inquiries about his elder son.
97. Moua was part of the tiny Hmong intelligentsia, an educated son of a clan elder.
98. He welcomed them with open arms, talked freely, played draughts with the younger and learned tables from the elder.
99. The elder Grant, 65, suffered a stroke that caused brain damage and slipped into a coma last week.
100. Violette, dark-haired, vivacious, instantly installed herself as Katherine's loquacious elder sister.
101. One day the elder of the two went out hunting, and disappeared.
102. The elder child may be made to give way to the demands of the younger one in order to keep the peace.
103. It was at a time when there was a big age difference: the elder students were ex-soldiers.
104. Their three elder girls were standing beside her and the baby, and Fantina was darting around them.
105. In 1944, when she was out shopping, a flying bomb killed her elder child.
106. It was the elder Gough who founded the Marin Weightlifting Club and relocated it to the vacant machine shop in 1990.
107. Well, two days later Mr McNab and his elder son called at my home.
108. Moser said the elder Carman was a retired union official.
109. The Radetsky March of the elder Johann Strauss gave a rousing finish.
110. Throughout the 1950s[Sentencedict], the elder Forbes served as a New Jersey state senator and was twice defeated in campaigns for governor.
111. Twenty years earlier he fled from an elder brother plotting to kill him.
112. At least three biographers have been snubbed by the elder Basquiat.
113. And the elder Miss Snoot at her window high up in Old Odborough looks over the roofs of the town.
114. Townshend may not relish a role as elder custodian of the nation s youth, but it suits him.
115. Her elder son's wife was a long-standing irritant, like an ill-perforated toilet roll.
116. They always remind me of those twins from that cartoonist my elder son liked.
117. But the elder Kim retained the military title of Marshal.
118. So this week Community Care launches Elder abuse: break the silence - its major campaign for 1993.
119. The choice fell on Lord Gorell, the son of an eminent judge who had inherited his title from his elder brother.
120. The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder. Jane Austen