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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151. In selective assessment the relationship between practitioner and elder is one of unequal power.
152. We will see people farming unlikely crops, like elder whose flowers make an appetizing cordial, and whose berries make wine.
153. Mum ran when she was young and my two elder sisters, Lorraine and Lisa, could have been good.
154. A church elder, he was convener of the fabric committee of Grandtully/Strathtay and Logiealmond Churches.
155. Kate and John's two elder daughters, Jemima and Jenny, particularly enjoy this part of Christmas.
156. For several years she made tours of the Continent with her elder unmarried sister, Caroline.
157. As this view wins general favour, the elder is denounced and discredited.
158. The ancestors rarely act on their own initiative: generally these avenging angels of justice are invoked by the local elder.
159. The elder of two sons of two Bronx schoolteachers, Steven grew up on Long Island.
160. He had come a long way with the Elder, as had his family from time immemorial.
161. Nenna was struck by the difference in her elder daughter since she had seen her last.
162. One was to her elder son Gamal, who was then in Florida.
163. But as the elder brother remains silent, his lawyers are preparing a new tack in their fight against murder charges.
164. George VI died in 1952, leaving his elder daughter Elizabeth to succeed him.
165. I was tremendously upset when the elder slipped a disc and spent freshman year in a full body brace.
166. Cox, as the elder, more established, and richer man, was the financial backer and often the named publisher.
167. Elder Brother fetched his stool and sat with the others.
168. If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor[sentencedict.com/elder.html], caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius. Joseph Addison
169. But his elder brother John thinks that he knew better what the score was than he ever let on.
170. Ministers rode the circuit, so the elder of the church did most of the work, including preaching.
171. Researching the prevalence of elder abuse is notoriously difficult, and information on the abuse of black elders is non-existent.
172. He went to Glasgow and began an apprenticeship in the engineering department of Randolph Elder, shipbuilders of Govan.
173. The chairs are under the shade of a box elder tree.
174. In face and figure young Pelops is clearly distinguished from the foursquare sturdy elder Oenomaus.
175. My elder brother was a lot more experienced in these matters than I was.
176. Not that the elder Mr Newhouse has any imminent plans to step aside.
177. In contrast, Jane Alexander as the elder sister and Robert Klein as her bulky beau are hitched to plows.
178. In the overall case, the four-year statute of limitations on alleged fraud, theft and financial elder abuse expires in February.
179. The elder brother was shot in the stomach as he knelt pleading for mercy.
180. His elder daughters, seventeen-year-old Nancy and fourteen-year-old Ella, were round all over.