Defenition of the word elder
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Defenition of the word elder
- Comparative of old.
- Person respected and listened to for being old in age or in membership.
- older and (at least formerly) larger than another though relative size is not the issue; "big sister"
- any of various church officers
- any of numerous shrubs or small trees of temperate and subtropical northern hemisphere having white flowers and berrylike fruit
- used of the older of two persons of the same name especially used to distinguish a father from his son; "Bill Adams, Sr."
- a person who is older than you are
- older brother or sister; "big sister"
- used of the older of two persons of the same name especially used to distinguish a father from his son
Synonyms for the word elder
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- big
- elderberry bush
- leader
- older
- senior
- sr.
Similar words in the elder
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- elder
- elderberries
- elderberry
- elderberry's
- elders
- senior
Meronymys for the word elder
Hyponyms for the word elder
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- American elder
- American red elder
- black elder
- black elderberry
- blue elder
- blue elderberry
- bourtree
- common elder
- danewort
- dean
- doyen
- doyenne
- dwarf elder
- elderberry
- European elder
- European red elder
- presbyter
- red-berried elder
- Sambucus caerulea
- Sambucus canadensis
- Sambucus ebulus
- Sambucus nigra
- Sambucus pubens
- Sambucus racemosa
- stinking elder
- sweet elder
Hypernyms for the word elder
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- adult
- bush
- church officer
- greybeard
- grownup
- old man
- shrub
- surname
Antonyms for the word elder
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