Elder

Definition

elder 1 /'eldǝ(r)/ adj ၁။ (က) (ေမြးခ်င္းမ်ားအနက္) အႀကီး ျဖစ္ေသာ။ my elder brother ❍ her elder daughter (ie the older one of her two daughters). (ခ) the elder အႀကီး (ျဖစ္သူ)။ He is the elder of my two brothers. ❍ These are my two sons. Can you guess which is the elder? ၂။ the elder ( fml ) (အမည္တူသူခ်င္းအႀကီး ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း ျပရန္ အမည္ေရွ႕ (သို႔) ေနာက္၌ ထည့္သံုးေသာစကား)။ Pitt the elder ❍ the elder Pitt. Compare SENIOR ၃, THE YOUNGER n ၁။ my, etc elder [sing] … ထက္ႀကီးသူ။ He is her elder by several years. ၂။ elders [pl] လူႀကီးသူမ။ သက္ႀကီးဝါႀကီး။ ေရွးလူႀကီး။ ဝါရင့္ပုဂၢိဳလ္။ 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] စေကာ့တလန္ ခရစ္ယာန္အသင္းေတာ္မ်ားမွ တာဝန္ရိွ ပုဂၢိဳလ္။ ❏ elder statesman n ႏိုင္ငံေရးဝါရင့္ပုဂၢိဳလ္။ ဝါရင့္ အႀကံေပး ပုဂၢိဳလ္။ elder 2 /'eldǝ(r)/ n ရနံ႔ေမႊးေသာ ပန္းအျဖဴပြင့္၍ ခရမ္းရင့္ေရာင္ အသီးသီးေသာ သစ္ပင္ငယ္။ အယ္ဒါပင္။ ❏ elderberry /'eldǝberi/ n အယ္ဒါသီး။

Examples

1. The elder son works on a farm.
2. [elder brother/sister] : Advice from my elder brother
3. The elder of the two had lost his job as a teacher.