ELDERS Synonyms

• someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)

• preceding in time or order

• someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)

• a preceding occurrence or cause or event

• anything that precedes something similar in time

• the referent of an anaphor; a phrase or clause that is referred to by an anaphoric pronoun

• a person from whom you are descended

• a married woman (usually middle-aged with children) who is staid and dignified

• a wardress in a prison

• a woman in charge of nursing in a medical institution

• title for the heads of the Eastern Orthodox Churches (in Istanbul and Alexandria and Moscow and Jerusalem)

• the male head of family or tribe

• any of the early biblical characters regarded as fathers of the human race

• a man who is older and higher in rank than yourself

• one who precedes you in time (as in holding a position or office)

• something that precedes and indicates the approach of something or someone

• older; higher in rank; longer in length of tenure or service

• an undergraduate student during the year preceding graduation

• a person who is older than you are

• used of the fourth and final year in United States high school or college

• advanced in years; (`aged' is pronounced as two syllables)

• of high or superior quality or performance

• of or characteristic of high rank or importance

• written or printed above and to one side of another character

• having an orbit farther from the sun than the Earth's orbit

• the largest freshwater lake in the world; the deepest of the Great Lakes

• one of greater rank or station or quality

• a town in northwest Wisconsin on Lake Superior across from Duluth

• the head of a religious community

• a combatant who is able to defeat rivals

• a character or symbol set or printed or written above and immediately to one side of another character

• (sometimes followed by `to') not subject to or influenced by

• having a higher rank

• (often followed by `to') above being affected or influenced by

• older; higher in rank; longer in length of tenure or service

• an undergraduate student during the year preceding graduation

• a person who is older than you are

• used of the fourth and final year in United States high school or college

• advanced in years; (`aged' is pronounced as two syllables)

• a late time of life

• a time of life (usually defined in years) at which some particular qualification or power arises

• a person who goes before or announces the coming of another

• something that precedes and indicates the approach of something or someone

• anything that precedes something similar in time

• advanced in years; (`aged' is pronounced as two syllables)

• used of the older of two persons of the same name especially used to distinguish a father from his son

• skilled through long experience

• a common shrub with black fruit or a small tree of Europe and Asia; fruit used for wines and jellies

• any of numerous shrubs or small trees of temperate and subtropical Northern Hemisphere having white flowers and berrylike fruit

• used of the older of two persons of the same name especially used to distinguish a father from his son