elder
senior | a person who is older than you are |
| elder | any of various church officers |
| elder statesman | an elderly statesman whose advice is sought be government leaders |
| elder statesman | any influential person whose advice is highly respected |
eldest hand
elder hand | the card player on the dealer's left |
Agrippina
Agrippina the Elder | granddaughter of Augustus and mother of Caligula and Agrippina the Younger ( BC - AD ) |
Brueghel
Breughel
Bruegel
Pieter Brueghel
Pieter Breughel
Pieter Bruegel
Breughel the Elder
Pieter Brueghel the Elder | Flemish painter of landscapes (-) |
Cosimo de Medici
Cosimo the Elder | Italian financier and statesman and friend of the papal court (-) |
Cyrus II
Cyrus the Elder
Cyrus the Great | king of Persia and founder of the Persian Empire (circ- BC) |
Dionysius
Dionysius the Elder | the tyrant of Syracuse who fought the Carthaginians (- BC) |
| Edward the Elder | king of Wessex whose military success against the Danes made it possible for his son Athelstan to become the first king of all England (-) |
Holbein
Hans Holbein
Holbein the Elder | German painter of religious works (-) |
Pitt
William Pitt
First Earl of Chatham
Pitt the Elder | English statesman who brought the Seven Years' War to an end (-) |
Pliny
Pliny the Elder
Gaius Plinius Secundus | Roman author of an encyclopedic natural history, died while observing the eruption of Vesuvius (-) |
Pliny Pliny the Younger
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus | Roman writer and nephew of Pliny the Elder, author of books of letters that commented on affairs of the day (-) |
Scipio
Scipio Africanus
Scipio Africanus Major
Publius Cornelius Scipio
Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus Major
Scipio the Elder | Roman general who commanded the invasion of Carthage in the second Punic War and defeated Hannibal at Zama (circa - BC) |
Strauss
Johann Strauss
Strauss the Elder | Austrian composer of waltzes (-) |
bristly sarsaparilla
bristly sarsparilla
dwarf elder Aralia hispida | bristly herb of eastern and central North America having black fruit and medicinal bark |
marsh elder
iva | any of various coarse shrubby plants of the genus Iva with small greenish flowers, common in moist areas (as coastal salt marshes) of eastern and central North America |
burweed marsh elder
false ragweed
Iva xanthifolia | tall annual marsh elder common in moist rich soil in central North America that can cause contact dermatitis, produces much pollen that is a major cause of hay fever |
elder
elderberry bush | any of numerous shrubs or small trees of temperate and subtropical northern hemisphere having white flowers and berrylike fruit |
American elder
black elderberry
sweet elder
Sambucus canadensis | common elder of central and eastern North America bearing purple-black berries, fruit used in wines and jellies |
blue elder
blue elderberry
Sambucus caerulea | shrub or small tree of western United States having white flowers and blue berries, fruit used in wines and jellies |
dwarf elder danewort
Sambucus ebulus | dwarf herbaceous elder of Europe having pink flowers and a nauseous odor |
bourtree
black elder
common elder
elderberry
European elder
Sambucus nigra | a common shrub with black fruit or a small tree of Europe and Asia, fruit used for wines and jellies |
American red elder
red-berried elder stinking elder
Sambucus pubens | common North American shrub or small tree |
European red elder
red-berried elder Sambucus racemosa | Eurasian shrub |
box elder
ash-leaved maple
Acer negundo | common shade tree of eastern and central United States |
California box elder
Acer negundo Californicum | maple of the Pacific coast of the United States, fruits are white when mature |
elder
older
sr. | used of the older of two persons of the same name especially used to distinguish a father from his son, Bill Adams, Sr. |