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

1. adjective. Older; more aged, or existing longer.
2. adjective. 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.
3. adjective. One who is older; a superior in age; a senior.
4. adjective. An aged person; one who lived at an earlier period; a predecessor.
5. adjective. 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.
6. adjective. A clergyman authorized to administer all the sacraments; as, a traveling elder.
7. noun. A genus of shrubs (Sambucus) having broad umbels of white flowers, and small black or red berries.
8. noun. a person who is older than you are

   Synonyms: senior

9. noun. any of various church officers
10. noun. any of numerous shrubs or small trees of temperate and subtropical northern hemisphere having white flowers and berrylike fruit
11. adjective. used of the older of two persons of the same name especially used to distinguish a father from his son

    "Bill Adams, Sr."

    Synonyms: older

Synonyms

senior, older

Common word forms

elders, elderly

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