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1. A person who is older than you are
   - senior
    
2. Any of numerous shrubs or small trees of temperate and subtropical northern hemisphere having white flowers and berrylike fruit
   - elderberry bush
    
3. Any of various church officers

1. Used of the older of two persons of the same name especially used to distinguish a father from his son
   - older, sr.

Derived forms: elders

See also: eldership, senior

Type of: adult, bush, church officer, grownup, shrub

Part of: genus Sambucus, Sambucus

Encyclopedia: Elder Elder, Ontario Elder, the role