elder

/'eldә/

柯林斯星级

BNC频率: 5602

现代语料频率: 4056

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中文翻译

n. 年长者, 老人, 前辈

a. 年长的, 资深的

英文解释

n. a person who is older than you are

n. any of numerous shrubs or small trees of temperate and subtropical northern hemisphere having white flowers and berrylike fruit

n. any of various church officers

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

词态变化

比较级:elder

原型:elder

变形:r

复数形式:elders

常见例句

(Old Testament) elder brother of Moses and first high priest of the Israelites

discrimination against middle-aged and elderly people

n discrimination against middle-aged and elderly people

n an elderly man n any piece of furniture or decorative object or the like produced in a former period and valuable because of its beauty or rarity v shop for antiques v give an antique appearance to

the Greek courtier to Dionysius the Elder who (according to legend) was condemned to sit under a naked sword that was suspended by a hair in order to demonstrate to him that being a king was not the happy state Damocles had said it was (4th century BC)