elder - Similar and Opposite Words

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Noun

a person who is older than you are

Synonyms

• elder
• senior

More generic

• adult
• grownup

More specific

• dean
• doyen
• doyenne

Noun

any of various church officers

Synonyms

• elder

More generic

• church officer

More specific

• presbyter

Noun

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

Synonyms

• elder
• elderberry bush

More generic

• bush
• shrub

More specific

• American elder
• American red elder
• European elder
• European red elder
• Sambucus caerulea
• Sambucus canadensis
• Sambucus ebulus
• Sambucus nigra
• Sambucus pubens
• Sambucus racemosa
• black elder
• black elderberry
• blue elder
• blue elderberry
• bourtree
• common elder
• danewort
• dwarf elder
• elderberry
• red-berried elder
• stinking elder
• sweet elder

Related

• Sambucus
• genus Sambucus

Adjective

used of the older of two persons of the same name especially used to distinguish a father from his son

Synonyms

• elder
• older
• sr.

Related

• senior

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