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Elder
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What's The Definition Of Elder?
[n] a person who is older than you are
[n] any of various church officers [n] any of numerous shrubs or small trees of temperate and subtropical northern hemisphere having white flowers and berrylike fruit [adj] older brother or sister; "big sister" [adj] used of the older of two persons of the same name especially used to distinguish a father from his son; "Bill Adams, Sr." Synonyms | Synonyms for Elder: big(a) | elderberry bush | older | senior | senior | sr. Related Terms | Find terms related to Elder: Aaronic priesthood | acolyte | age | alderman | almoner | anagnost | ancestors | antecedent | antecedents | antediluvian | anterior | anticipatory | antique | apostle | archon | ascendants | authority | back number | bailie | baron | beadle | bedral | Bible clerk | Bible reader | big gun | big man | big name | bigwig | bishop | boss | brass | brass hat | burghermaster | burgomaster | bwana | cabinet member | cabinet minister | caducity | capitular | capitulary | celebrity | centenarian | chancellor | chef | chief | choir chaplain | church dignitary | churchwarden | ci-devant | city councilman | city father | city manager | clerk | commissar | commissioner | conservative | councillor | councilman | councilwoman | county commissioner | county supervisor | dad | deacon | deaconess | dean | dignitary | dignity | doctor | dodo | dotard | doyen | doyenne | earlier | early | ecclesiarch | elder statesman | elderliness | elderman | elders | eldest | employer | Establishment | experienced | father | Father Time | fathers | figure | first | first-born | firstling | fogy | fore | forebears | forefathers | foregoing | former | fossil | fud | fuddy-duddy | gaffer | geezer | golden-ager | goodman | gramps | grandfather | grandfathers | grandparents | grandsire | granny | graybeard | great man | great soul | guru | has-been | headman | high priest | husband | illuminate | important person | induna | intellect | intellectual | interests | lay elder | lay reader | lector | lecturer | legislator | liege | liege lord | lion | longhair | lord | lord mayor | lord paramount | lords of creation | lover of wisdom | magistrate | magnate | mahatma | maire | major | man of intellect | man of mark | man of wisdom | mandarin | master | mastermind | matriarch | mayor | Melchizedek priesthood | mentor | Methuselah | mid-Victorian | minister | minister of state | mogul | mossback | nabob | name | Nestor | nonagenarian | notability | notable | octogenarian | old age | old believer | old chap | old codger | old crock | old dodo | old dog | old duffer | old fogy | old geezer | old gent | old gentleman | old liner | old man | Old Paar | old party | old poop | old woman | older | oldest | oldster | old-timer | oracle | overlord | padrone | panjandrum | pantaloon | paramount | parish clerk | paterfamilias | patriarch | patriarchs | patron | person of renown | personage | personality | philosopher | pillar of society | pop | pops | portreeve | power | power elite | preceding | precentor | precurrent | predecessors | preexistent | presbyter | previous | priest | prime | primogenitary | prior | progenitors | rabbi | reactionary | reader | reeve | regular old fogy | relic | respected | rishi | ruling circle | ruling elder | sachem | sacrist | sacristan | sage | sahib | sapient | savant | scholar | secretary | secretary of state | seer | seigneur | seignior | selectman | senectitude | senescence | senior | senior citizen | septuagenarian | Seventy | sexagenarian | sexton | shames | sidesman | sire | somebody | something | square | starets | succentor | suisse | superior | supervisor | syndic | teacher | teaching elder | the great | the quiet-voiced elders | the top | thinker | thurifer | top brass | top people | traditionalist | tycoon | undersecretary | venerable | venerable sir | verger | vergeress | very important person | veteran | VIP | warden | wise man | wise old man | worthy | years See Also | adult | American elder | American red elder | black elder | black elderberry | blue elder | blue elderberry | bourtree | bush | church officer | common elder | danewort | dean | doyen | doyenne | dwarf elder | elderberry | European elder | European red elder | genus Sambucus | grownup | presbyter | red-berried elder | Sambucus | Sambucus caerulea | Sambucus canadensis | Sambucus ebulus | Sambucus nigra | Sambucus pubens | Sambucus racemosa | shrub | stinking elder | sweet elder Elder In Webster's Dictionary \Eld"er\, a. [AS. yldra, compar. of eald old. See {Old}.]
1. Older; more aged, or existing longer.
Let the elder men among us emulate their own earlier
deeds. --Jowett
(Thucyd. )
2. Born before another; prior in years; senior; earlier;
older; as, his elder brother died in infancy; -- opposed
to {younger}, and now commonly applied to a son, daughter,
child, brother, etc.
The elder shall serve the younger. --Gen. xxv.
23.
But ask of elder days, earth's vernal hour. --Keble.
{Elder hand} (Card Playing), the hand playing, or having the
right to play, first. --Hoyle.
\Eld"er\, n. [AS. ealdor an elder, prince, fr. eald old. See {Old}, and cf. {Elder}, a., {Alderman}.] 1. One who is older; a superior in age; a senior. --1 Tim. v. 1. 2. An aged person; one who lived at an earlier period; a predecessor. Carry your head as your elders have done. --L'Estrange. 3. A person who, on account of his age, occupies the office of ruler or judge; hence, a person occupying any office appropriate to such as have the experience and dignity which age confers; as, the elders of Israel; the elders of the synagogue; the elders in the apostolic church. Note: In the modern Presbyterian churches, elders are lay officers who, with the minister, compose the church session, with authority to inspect and regulate matters of religion and discipline. In some churches, pastors or clergymen are called elders, or presbyters. 4. (M. E. Ch.) A clergyman authorized to administer all the sacraments; as, a traveling elder. {Presiding elder} (Meth. Ch.), an elder commissioned by a bishop to have the oversight of the churches and preachers in a certain district. {Ruling elder}, a lay presbyter or member of a Presbyterian church session. --Schaff. \El"der\, n. [OE. ellern, eller, AS. ellen, cf. LG. elloorn; perh. akin to OHG. holantar, holuntar, G. holunder; or perh. to E. alder, n.] (Bot.) A genus of shrubs ({Sambucus}) having broad umbels of white flowers, and small black or red berries. Note: The common North American species is {Sambucus Canadensis}; the common European species ({S. nigra}) forms a small tree. The red-berried elder is {S. pubens}. The berries are diaphoretic and aperient. {Box elder}. See under 1st {Box}. {Dwarf elder}. See {Danewort}. {Elder tree}. (Bot.) Same as {Elder}. --Shak. {Marsh elder}, the cranberry tree {Viburnum Opulus}). |
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