elder
has definitions from the fields of work,botany
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[ adjective ] used of the older of two persons of the same name especially used to distinguish a father from his son
Examples "Bill Adams, Sr." Used in print (The Times-Picayune, [New Orleans]...)Volumes One and Two , selected from the sound_tracks of a television series , contain `` conversations with the elder wise_men of our day '' . (David Stacton, The Judges of the Secret Court....)He smiled , but now that he knew where the elder Seward was , he did not intend to go . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (botany) any of numerous shrubs or small trees of temperate and subtropical northern hemisphere having white flowers and berrylike fruit
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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 1005
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[ noun ] (work) any of various church officers
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