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Eldest

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Greatest in age or seniority. See Usage Note at elder1.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. superlative form of old: most old.; greatest in age or seniority.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Oldest; longest in duration.

adj. Born or living first, or before the others, as a son, daughter, brother, etc.; first in origin. See Elder.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Oldest; most advanced in age; that was born first: as, the eldest son or daughter.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. the offspring who came first in the order of birth

adj. first in order of birth

Word Usage

"Usually, the 2nd, 3rd and 5th sons are sprawled on our bed while watching cartoons on cable TV; the eldest is engrossed on highstreet 5 while the 4th son plays mafia wars on facebook."

Equivalent

first

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

progeny issue offspring

Cross Reference

eldest hand

Variant

elder

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

oldest

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

long-lost eleven-year-old ten-year-old fourteen-year-old five-year-old