Elder: alternatives and connections

More advanced than another in age; prior in age; elder; hence, more advanced in dignity, rank, or office; superior; as, senior member; senior counsel.

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More advanced than another in age; prior in age; elder; hence, more advanced in dignity, rank, or office; superior; as, senior member; senior counsel.

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One who acts, or takes part in any affair; a doer.

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A thicket, or place abounding in trees or shrubs; a wild forest.

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One who does; one performs or executes; one who is wont and ready to act; an actor; an agent.

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A liquor composed of vegetable acid, especially lemon juice, and sugar, with spirit to preserve it.

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One who, or that which, works; a laborer; a performer; as, a worker in brass.

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A fetid European species of elder (Sambucus Ebulus); dwarf elder; wallwort; elderwort; -- called also Daneweed, Dane's weed, and Dane's-blood. [Said…

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A dignitary or presiding officer in certain ecclesiastical and lay bodies; esp., an ecclesiastical dignitary, subordinate to a bishop.

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An elder in the early Christian church. See 2d Citation under Bishop, n., 1.

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The state of being older; seniority.

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The state of being older; seniority.

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More advanced than another in age; prior in age; elder; hence, more advanced in dignity, rank, or office; superior; as, senior member; senior counsel.

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.