older vs elder
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.
Last year there was only me and AA who were 1st years, plus AA is heaps older and I didn't know her at all.
Hillary's woman problem is that her reach among women over 30 I don't want to use the term older women is unlikely to change much.
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 ...
It is frequently assumed that elderly persons lose their sexual desires or that they are physically unable to perform.
