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.
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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181. One of the elder Falkenhayn's divisions alone left 2,200 men on the blood-soaked northern slopes of the Mort Homme.
182. The elder Earnhardt died of a heart attack at age 45 in 1973.
183. She was, as she always had been, a kind of benign, elder sister.
184. Young elder tree and ash tree leaves can also turn black sometimes once they have been pressed.
185. Her elder sister had married and moved to her in-laws.
186. They had two sons; the elder committed suicide in 1928 and the younger died in action in 1917.
187. On top of all this was the constant need to defend his religion against a clever elder brother who was an atheist.
188. His two elder brothers and one sister all died as children.
189. There was some difficulty about funds until Laxmidas, Mohandas' elder brother and a lawyer, undertook to supply them.
190. Margaret Elder was giving evidence on the first day of the fatal accident inquiry into drugs deaths in Glasgow.
191. Assessing this potential helps the practitioner to decide how best to work with an elder when some breakdown in routine occurs.
192. His elder brother Frank was 17 and revered by Michael who was 15.
193. In other accounts, Pliny the Elder wrote that Persian women massaged their faces with yogurt to prevent wrinkles.
194. Paralysed as he was, his elder brother Edwin could never father a child.
195. Always he had been overshadowed by his elder brother, the famous Black Douglas - and never wished it otherwise.
196. The elder female sank down on a tree stump to rest, fanning herself with her hand.
197. Because that power comes so naturally, the elder women may not have felt the need to subjugate men.
198. Perhaps this was something he had in common with his elder son.
199. I have very affectionate memories of Sidney,[www.Sentencedict.com] one of the elder Fawcett boys.
200. He was knighted in 1949, then slipped easily into the role of cricketing elder statesman.
201. These opportunities included being a member of a sixteenth-century religious order, an elder statesman and a doctor.
202. Nguyen Seth hadn't changed since then, Duroc knew. But then again, the Elder was older than he looked.
203. Yes, this was the closest that Lexandro had yet come to communion with elder Brethren.
204. Back in the village he is the patriarch, since his father and elder brother are dead.
205. The presence of an illegitimate child to that elder brother had been kept a dark secret.
206. His elder brother Edwin was next in succession to the baronetcy, but he was a total invalid.
207. The elder Clarks and the Wrights had sold off their stakes.
208. This was readily agreed, and Mr. Ball the elder held the post efficiently throughout the remainder of the war.
209. Her elder sister married the Reverend Norris, who received the living at Mansfield.
210. They had two sons, the elder of whom died at the age of nineteen, and two daughters.