Elder

['eldə] or ['ɛldɚ]

解释:

(noun.) a person who is older than you are.

(noun.) any of various church officers.

(noun.) any of numerous shrubs or small trees of temperate and subtropical northern hemisphere having white flowers and berrylike fruit.

(adj.) used of the older of two persons of the same name especially used to distinguish a father from his son; 'Bill Adams, Sr.' .

赫克托整理--From WordNet

解释:

(a.) Older; more aged, or existing longer.

(a.) 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.

(a.) One who is older; a superior in age; a senior.

(a.) An aged person; one who lived at an earlier period; a predecessor.

(a.) 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.) A clergyman authorized to administer all the sacraments; as, a traveling elder.

(n.) A genus of shrubs (Sambucus) having broad umbels of white flowers, and small black or red berries.

手打:特雷弗

同义词及近义词:

a. Older, senior.

n. Senior, aged person.

杜安整理

同义词及反义词:

SYN:Senior, father

ANT:Junior, son

整理:温弗雷德

解释:

adj. older: having lived a longer time: prior in origin.—n. one who is older: an ancestor: one advanced to office on account of age: one of a class of office-bearers in the Presbyterian Church—equivalent to the presbyters of the New Testament.—n. Eld′erliness.—adj. Eld′erly somewhat old: bordering on old age.—n. Eld′ership state of being older: the office of an elder.—adj. Eld′est oldest.

n. a genus of plants consisting chiefly of shrubs and trees with pinnate leaves small flowers (of which the corolla is wheel-shaped and five-cleft) and three-seeded berries—the Common Elder is the Scotch Bourtree.—ns. Eld′er-berr′y the acidulous purple-black drupaceous fruit of the elder; Eld′er-gun a popgun made of elder-wood by extracting the pith; Eld′er-wine a pleasant wine made from elder-berries.—Elder-flower water distilled water with an agreeable odour made from the flowers.

编辑:罗德里克

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