Synonym: firstborn. Similar words: elder, welder, elderly, manifest destiny, cul-de-sac, widest, modest, destroy. Meaning: [əʊld] n. the offspring who came first in the order of birth. adj. first in order of birth.
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121. But Li is closely tied to the eldest of the revolutionary generation.
122. Her eldest brother thought of nothing but the day when he'd have the farm and be able to marry his sweetheart.
123. In later life he had to be subsidized by the teetotal movement and lived with his eldest sister.
124. Inheritable property has still tended to go to the eldest son.
125. He appears to have been the eldest child, with at least one brother, William.
126. If our eldest son is awake then he may come down and have breakfast with us.
127. Laura's relationship with her eldest daughter was less straight forward.
128. May 1910, and it was necessary for his eldest son to become King George V, in his succession.
129. For free brochure write or telephone giving age of eldest person to be included.
130. Ernst August and Sophia had six sons and one daughter; their eldest son George was born in 1660.
131. David C.. Bolles, eldest son of Don Bolles, helped her lay a wreath at the foot of the monument.
132. On February 11, 1988, their eldest child, Nicky, died in a motorcycle accident.
133. His eldest son James, who had been living in Stirling castle, was persuaded to join the malcontents.
134. Bruch suggests that a significantly large proportion of anorexics are eldest or elder daughters.
135. The bed is a copy of one of a pair that Lutyens designed for his own eldest daughters.
136. Obviously the eldest girl had been shopping: the folding pushchair had a shelf under the seat lumped high with plastic bags.
137. I was hard on my eldest son, and he, in turn, was mean to his little brother.
137. Sentencedict.com try its best to gather and make good sentences.
138. He then headed north, taking his eldest son with him.
139. For instance, she was possessive of our eldest son and I wasn't allowed to go near him.
140. In the years that followed, Mary's eldest daughter went to Bible college to train for the mission field.
141. It's still the tradition here that the eldest son inherits all the family's money and land.
142. Pedro's heiress was his eldest surviving daughter Constanza, who married John of Gaunt in September 1371.
143. The eldest son of my host was missing an ear.
144. So Simon was now an only son, an eldest son, and he stood to inherit in Somerset as well.
145. Dorothy, the eldest, went to the maternal grandparents, where she stayed for a number of years.
146. She retains virtual control of her sons, the eldest of whom firmly remains second in line to the throne.
147. On the death of his eldest brother only a few weeks later, he was apprenticed to his father as a chemist.
148. The only child left now was the eldest girl, still locked in the bathroom upstairs.
149. Mary's response to the crisis, and the apparent rudeness of her eldest is one of quiet confidence.
150. This he usually did, and often it was his eldest son.
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