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• (of one or more out of a group of associated people) of a greater age.

• "my elder daughter"

Similar: older, senior, first, firstborn, more grown up, big,

Opposite: younger, little,

• people who are older than one.

• "schoolchildren were no less fascinated than their elders"

• a leader or senior figure in a tribe or other group.

• "a council of village elders"

Similar: senior, old/older person, leader, senior figure, official, patriarch, father, guiding light, guru,

Origin: Old English ieldra, eldra, of Germanic origin; related to German älter, also to eld and old.

• a small tree or shrub with pithy stems, white flowers, and bluish-black or red berries.

Origin: Old English ellærn ; related to Middle Low German ellern, elderne .