elder vs doyenne

elder and doyenne both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
elder	Yes	Yes	No	No
doyenne	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, doyenne is a hyponym of elder; that is, doyenne is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than elder:

Other hyponyms of elder include dean, doyen, senpai.

elder (noun)	doyenne (noun)
a person who is older than you are	a woman who is the senior member of a group
any of various church officers
any of numerous shrubs or small trees of temperate and subtropical Northern Hemisphere having white flowers and berrylike fruit

elder (adjective)	doyenne (adjective)
used of the older of two persons of the same name especially used to distinguish a father from his son