Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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elder | Yes | Yes | No | No |
older | No | Yes | No | No |
elder (noun) | older (noun) |
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a person who is older than you are | |
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) | older (adjective) |
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used of the older of two persons of the same name especially used to distinguish a father from his son | skilled through long experience |
advanced in years; (`aged' is pronounced as two syllables) | |
used of the older of two persons of the same name especially used to distinguish a father from his son |