Reference meaning
elder
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a person who is older than you are
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Other meanings
2. noun
any of numerous shrubs or small trees of temperate and subtropical northern hemisphere having white flowers and berrylike fruit
3. noun
any of various church officers
4. adjective
used of the older of two persons of the same name especially used to distinguish a father from his son
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