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DictionaryEnglish - Myanmar
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elders

/ˈɛldə/

US pronunciation
American sound/ˈɛldə/
elders
Syllables
2 syllables
Stress
1st syllable stress
Vowel
Schwa vowel
Ending
Clear final sound

el - ders -> elders

Myanmar meaning

(n) လူကြီးသူမ။ သက်ကြီးဝါကြီး။ ရှေးလူကြီး။ ဝါရင့်ပုဂ္ဂိုလ်။ စကော့တလန် ခရစ်ယာန်အသင်းတော်များမှ တာဝန်ရှိ ပုဂ္ဂိုလ်။

Full entry

elder1 /'eldǝ(r)/ adj

၁။ (က) (မွေးချင်းများအနက်) အကြီး ဖြစ်သော။ my elder brother ❍ her elder daughter (ie the older one of her two daughters). (ခ) the elder အကြီး (ဖြစ်သူ)။ He is the elder of my two brothers. ❍ These are my two sons. Can you guess which is the elder?
၂။ the elder (fml ) (အမည်တူသူချင်းအကြီး ဖြစ်ကြောင်း ပြရန် အမည်ရှေ့ (သို့) နောက်၌ ထည့်သုံးသောစကား)။ Pitt the elder ❍ the elder Pitt. Compare SENIOR ၃, THE YOUNGER
n
၁။ my, etc elder [sing] … ထက်ကြီးသူ။ He is her elder by several years.
၂။ elders [pl] လူကြီးသူမ။ သက်ကြီးဝါကြီး။ ရှေးလူကြီး။ ဝါရင့်ပုဂ္ဂိုလ်။ party elders ❍ the village elders
(ie the old and respected people of the village) ❍ Traditions were passed on by the elders of the tribe.
၃။ [C] စကော့တလန် ခရစ်ယာန်အသင်းတော်များမှ တာဝန်ရှိ ပုဂ္ဂိုလ်။
❏ elder statesman n နိုင်ငံရေးဝါရင့်ပုဂ္ဂိုလ်။ ဝါရင့် အကြံပေး ပုဂ္ဂိုလ်။

elder2 /'eldǝ(r)/ n

ရနံ့မွှေးသော ပန်းအဖြူပွင့်၍ ခရမ်းရင့်ရောင် အသီးသီးသော သစ်ပင်ငယ်။ အယ်ဒါပင်။
❏ elderberry /'eldǝberi/ n အယ်ဒါသီး။

More examples
  • The elder son works on a farm.
  • [elder brother/sister] : Advice from my elder brother
  • The elder of the two had lost his job as a teacher.
Synonyms
senior, leader, ancestor, ancient, born earlier, chief, earlier, first-born, forebearer, golden ager, head, matriarch, more mature, old fogey, older, older person, oldest, oldster, patriarch, senior citizen, superior, veteran
Antonyms
junior, last-born, minor, younger, youngest, youngster, youth
Cross references
seniorleaderancestorancientborn earlierchiefearlierfirst-bornforebearergolden agerheadmatriarchmore matureold fogeyolderolder personoldestoldsterpatriarchsenior citizensuperiorveteranjuniorlast-bornminoryoungeryoungestyoungster
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