1. elder

noun. ['ˈɛldɝ'] a person who is older than you are.

Rhymes with Elder

• heldor

How do you pronounce elder?

Pronounce elder as ˈɛldər.

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Sentences with elder

1. Noun, singular or mass
Purchase music or movies for your elder's Christmas gift.

2. Adjective, comparative
The demand for elder care increases as the baby-boomer population ages.

3. Verb, base form
These properties may be houses, apartment buildings, elder housing developments and group homes for disabled people.

Quotes about elder

1. If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
- Joseph Addison

2. If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
- Joseph Addison

3. Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else.
- Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

2. elder

adjective. ['ˈɛldɝ'] used of the older of two persons of the same name especially used to distinguish a father from his son.

3. elder

noun. ['ˈɛldɝ'] any of numerous shrubs or small trees of temperate and subtropical northern hemisphere having white flowers and berrylike fruit.

4. elder

noun. ['ˈɛldɝ'] any of various church officers.