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elder

adjective as in born earlier

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noun as in older person

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The elder Murdoch had claimed changing the trust was necessary to preserve the conservative bent of his media properties, which would maintain shareholder value for all the heirs.

Her elder sister, Railane, says a man had offered her money for sex and she had refused, so he found her later and beat her to death.

From BBC

He recommends that husbands who are dissatisfied with a wife's housework skills "call the elders of the church and ask them for a pastoral visit."

From Salon

The elder Biden issued the pardon Sunday, sparing his 54-year-old son from a possible prison sentence for federal gun and tax convictions.

The elder Kobayashi was found dead last week near LAX in what police say was an apparent suicide.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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