Elder vs. Alder

Elderadjective

Comparative of old: older, greater than another in age or seniority.

Eldernoun

An older person or an older member, usually a leader, of some community.

Eldernoun

One who is older than another.

Eldernoun

One who lived at an earlier period; a predecessor.

Eldernoun

An officer of a church, sometimes having teaching responsibilities.

Eldernoun

A clergyman authorized to administer all the sacraments.

Eldernoun

One ordained to the lowest office in the Melchizedek priesthood.

Eldernoun

Male missionary.

Eldernoun

Title for a male missionary; title for a general authority.

Eldernoun

A pagan or Heathen priest or priestess.

Eldernoun

A small tree, Sambucus nigra, having white flowers in a cluster, and edible purple berries

Eldernoun

Any of the other species of the genus Sambucus: small trees, shrubs or herbaceous perennials with red, purple, or white/yellow berries (some of which are poisonous).

Elderverb

(Quakerism) To admonish or reprove for improper conduct by the elders of the meeting.

Elderadjective

Older; more aged, or existing longer.

Elderadjective

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.

Eldernoun

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

Eldernoun

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

Eldernoun

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.

Eldernoun

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

Eldernoun

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

Eldernoun

a person who is older than you are

Eldernoun

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

Eldernoun

any of various church officers

Elderadjective

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

Elderadjective

older brother or sister;

Elderadjective

(of one or more out of a group of associated people) of a greater age

Elderadjective

used to distinguish between related famous people with the same name

Eldernoun

people who are older than one

Eldernoun

a person who is older than one by a specified length of time

Eldernoun

a leader or senior figure in a tribe or other group

Eldernoun

an official in the early Christian Church, or of various Protestant Churches and sects

Eldernoun

a member of a senate or governing body.

Eldernoun

a small tree or shrub with pithy stems, white flowers, and bluish-black or red berries.

Eldernoun

used in names of plants that resemble the elder in leaf or flower, e.g. ground elder.

Aldernoun

Any of several trees or shrubs of the genus Alnus, belonging to the birch family.

Aldernoun

A tree, usually growing in moist land, and belonging to the genus Alnus. The wood is used by turners, etc.; the bark by dyers and tanners. In the U. S. the species of alder are usually shrubs or small trees.

Alderadjective

Of all; - used in composition; as, alderbest, best of all, alderwisest, wisest of all.

Aldernoun

wood of any of various alder trees; resistant to underwater rot; used for bridges etc

Aldernoun

north temperate shrubs or trees having toothed leaves and conelike fruit; bark is used in tanning and dyeing and the rot-resistant wood

Aldernoun

a widely distributed tree of the birch family which has toothed leaves and bears male catkins and woody female cones.

Alder

Alder is the common name of a genus of flowering plants, Alnus, belonging to the birch family Betulaceae. The genus comprises about 35 species of monoecious trees and shrubs, a few reaching a large size, distributed throughout the north temperate zone with a few species extending into Central America, as well as the northern and southern Andes.