elder vs older
Definitions
noun
- a person who is older than you are
- any of numerous shrubs or small trees of temperate and subtropical northern hemisphere having white flowers and berrylike fruit
- any of various church officers
adjective
- used of the older of two persons of the same name especially used to distinguish a father from his son
Examples
Three healthcare assistants have been charged after an investigation into the alleged abuse of elderly hospital patients.
(12 May 2006) - Three years in the business might seem like a too-brief span for a retrospective, but since 2003, Washington D. C.-based quartet the Fort Knox Five founded their own record label (called Fort Knox Recordings), remixed the likes of Tito Puente, Louis Armstrong, And Tower of Power, and collaborated with hip hop's elder statesman Africa Bambaataa-not to mention all the bodies they've got moving on the ...
As he rode along the lanes, his nostrils filled with the heady scent of elderflowers, and the air was alive with stag beetles whose chunky black bodies whirred defiantly through the dusk.
Definitions
adjective
- skilled through long experience
- used of the older of two persons of the same name especially used to distinguish a father from his son
- advanced in years; (`aged' is pronounced as two syllables)
Examples
Statutory rape laws were first enacted to protect minors from older predators.
Frankly I don't understand why most companies don't follow the same policy as franked income in the hands of shareholders is worth a lot more to them than huge piles of franking credits mouldering away in the company's balance sheet.
The space left by evaporation is called the ullage, while the liquid lost is sometimes called the ‘angels' share’ and is particularly financially significant in the production of older cognac and Armagnac.
