elder

Meanings

Plural: elders

Noun

• a person who is older than you are
• any of numerous shrubs or small trees of temperate and subtropical northern hemisphere having white flowers and berrylike fruit
• any of various church officers
• A leader or senior member of a tribe or community, often of considerable age, respected as an authority figure, especially in a counselling, consultative, or ceremonial role.
• An old person.
• One who is older than another.
• One who lived at an earlier period; a predecessor.
• An officer of a church, sometimes having teaching responsibilities.
• A clergyman authorized to administer all the sacraments.
• One ordained to the lowest office in the Melchizedek priesthood.
• A male missionary.
• Title for a male missionary; title for a general authority.
• A pagan or Heathen priest or priestess.
• A small tree, Sambucus nigra, having white flowers in a cluster, and edible purple berries.
• Any of the other species of the genus Sambucus: small trees, shrubs or herbaceous perennials with red, purple, or white/yellow berries (some of which are poisonous).
• A cow's udder, especially used as food.

Adjective Satellite

• used of the older of two persons of the same name especially used to distinguish a father from his son

Adj

• comparative degree of old: older, greater than another in age or seniority.

Verb

• To admonish or reprove for improper conduct by the elders of the meeting.

Synonyms

antecessor, black elder, eld, elderberry bush, elderly, forerunner, geriatric, long in the tooth, mzee, old person, older, on in years, predecessor, senior, sr.

Related Words

alder

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