Elder is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ELDER in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a kind of shrub or small tree bearing white flowers and black berries
• people who are older than one
• a person who is older than one by a specified length of time
• a leader or senior figure in a tribe or other group
• an official in the early Christian Church, or of various Protestant Churches and sects
• a member of a senate or governing body.
• a small tree or shrub with pithy stems, white flowers, and bluish-black or red berries.
• used in names of plants that resemble the elder in leaf or flower, e.g. ground elder.
• A genus of shrubs (Sambucus) having broad umbels of white flowers, and small black or red berries.
• 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
• older person
ADJECTIVE:
• (of one or more out of a group of associated people) of a greater age
• used to distinguish between related famous people with the same name
• Older; more aged, or existing longer.
• 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.
• One who is older; a superior in age; a senior.
• An aged person; one who lived at an earlier period; a predecessor.
• 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.
• A clergyman authorized to administer all the sacraments; as, a traveling elder.
• used of the older of two persons of the same name especially used to distinguish a father from his son
• older
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• an older person

Words related to ELDER

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Words that contain ELDER

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How to use ELDER in a sentence

• At last she moved close to the elder, and began to talk.
• Sampson, the Presiding Elder of the District, had been a member of the Michigan Conference.
• When he saw the tall figure striding through the pasture, he ran to let down the bars, and hurried up to the Elder and grasped both his hands.
• When he opened his sleepy eyes and raised his expressive ears to a position of attention, the old familiar coat and battered hat of the elder were before him.
• The elder of these, as we have said, was an Indian, pure breed of the great Northern wilderness.
• I asked the elder Chwastowski to take it to Warsaw, and sent a money order by telegraph.
• So that evening the elder brother asked him where he had been that he had not looked after the cattle properly nor eaten any breakfast.
• The six elder brothers were all married but Lita refused to marry and when questioned he said that he would not marry any one but the Belbati Princess.
• Peter Vanarsdale, an elder of the Presbyterian church in Carrollton, formerly from Kentucky, told me, the other day, that a Mrs.
• She did not greet the young Elder as did the others, seeming, indeed, to be unconscious of his presence.
• Still farther back, inside the stockade, where the gossiping groups yet lingered, they were saying it was strange that Elder Rae waited so long to take him a wife or two.
• Even now the taller and elder of the three had spoken only to tender her services to a suffering fellow-creature.
• The hero of this daring exposition of Calvinistic theology was William Fisher, a farmer in the neighbourhood of Mauchline, and an elder in Mr.
• As the planet Saturn, Ninip was the ghost of the elder god, and as the son of Bel he was the solar war god of spring, the great wild bull, the god of fertility.
• It would seem that Merodach as Jupiter displaced at Babylon Nebo as Saturn, the elder god, as Bel Enlil displaced the elder Ninip at Nippur.
• A man might attach himself to the younger as well as the elder of these brothers.
• Hence it is that the Elder tree may be so often seen immediately near old village houses.
• I fancy it must have been some elder sister of mine who went through everything.
• My way home from the terminus took me past the hotel at which the elder Mr.
• The foot of the elder one became entangled in the stirrup, which unfortunately caused her head and shoulders to remain beneath the water.
• They were now in the heart of the elder growth, hidden from all the rest of the world and isolated from anything that might have promised relief.
• The elder daughter, Sophia Charlotte, was married, April 28, 1820, to Mr.
• My father led his own regiment, and, old as he was, would not leave his royal master, and my elder brother stayed at home to support the family.
• The elder Edwards, anxious to see the new ranch, accompanied us, his patience with a cow being something remarkable.
• In childhood she had stood in a degree alone, for her elder sisters were four or five years older than herself, and Florence and Emily four and five years younger.
• Robert, who was a short stout fellow for his age, slept in the same bed with his elder brother John, who was reckoned an uncommonly fine and tall lad for his years.
• Boyd McNary and his elder brother, Judge McNary, who believed he was four years older than he supposed himself to be.
• Chaldea did not show herself, so the deposed queen was accompanied to the outskirts of the wood by the elder gypsies, mourning loudly.

Similar words containing ELD without suffix er

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