Dictionary Entry
elder
elder is a 5-letter English word with 11 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Older; more aged, or existing longer. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 7 · 11 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Older; more aged, or existing longer.
- 2adjective
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.
- 3adjective
One who is older; a superior in age; a senior.
- 4adjective
An aged person; one who lived at an earlier period; a predecessor.
- 5adjective
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.
- 6adjective
A clergyman authorized to administer all the sacraments; as, a traveling elder.
- 7noun
A genus of shrubs (Sambucus) having broad umbels of white flowers, and small black or red berries.
- 8noun
a person who is older than you are
Synonyms
- 9noun
any of various church officers
- 10noun
any of numerous shrubs or small trees of temperate and subtropical northern hemisphere having white flowers and berrylike fruit
- 11adjective
used of the older of two persons of the same name especially used to distinguish a father from his son
"Bill Adams, Sr."
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