adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
boy
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Funnily enough, it was one of my nephews brought him the message - Josh's eldest boy , Jimmy.
brother
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My eldest brother , Joe, used to take correspondence courses, so one lived in an environment of self-improvement.
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Her eldest brother thought of nothing but the day when he'd have the farm and be able to marry his sweetheart.
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Do you remember Will, my eldest brother ?
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At the end of a year Gabriel went to visit the eldest brother .
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She says they once belonged to her eldest brother .
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It was her third eldest brother John of Cawdor who entered.
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He renounced his apprenticeship in 1858 and resolved to follow his eldest brother into the ranks of the Geological Survey.
child
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The eldest child carried in her arms a baby in long clothes.
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On February 11, 1988, their eldest child , Nicky, died in a motorcycle accident.
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He was the eldest child in his family.
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Nellie, the eldest child and closest to John, married an aspiring theatrical agent and manager, Percy Rimmer.
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He appears to have been the eldest child , with at least one brother, William.
daughter
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In the years that followed, Mary's eldest daughter went to Bible college to train for the mission field.
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He had to pay when his eldest daughter was married. 4.
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Grimsdale's eldest daughter cleaned the room briefly with a broom and the rest of the children scurried about the house.
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Their eldest daughter , Elizabeth, 15, tried to commit suicide.
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One of Chelsea's star players, David Webb, was godfather to the couple's eldest daughter , Emma.
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In 1874 he married Lelia, eldest daughter of Leon Serena of Venice.
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The bed is a copy of one of a pair that Lutyens designed for his own eldest daughters .
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Laura's relationship with her eldest daughter was less straight forward.
girl
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The only child left now was the eldest girl , still locked in the bathroom upstairs.
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Obviously the eldest girl had been shopping: the folding pushchair had a shelf under the seat lumped high with plastic bags.
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That of the eldest girl , Anne, was granted to Geoffrey Middleton, the head of a Lonsdale family.
sister
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Ward, the eldest sister marries Mr. Norris.
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When Jesse died, Delbert was four years old and his eldest sister was twenty-one.
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I am particularly close to my eldest sister who is twenty years my senior-also to my mum.
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This made the youngest afraid, but her eldest sister again silenced her.
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He was the eldest son of my father's eldest sister , Bessie.
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My eldest sister , Jennifer Sung-ah, was fifteen.
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More like Nancy's dumplings, said Alfred, and received a bash from his eldest sister for being personal.
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While she respected Jane, the sensible member of the foursome, she hero-worshipped her eldest sister .
son
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If our eldest son is awake then he may come down and have breakfast with us.
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The rivalry led to the murder of Clodomir, her eldest son .
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Ernst August and Sophia had six sons and one daughter; their eldest son George was born in 1660.
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David C.. Bolles, eldest son of Don Bolles, helped her lay a wreath at the foot of the monument.
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This was done upon the eldest son attaining the age of 21 years.
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If only his eldest sons wouldn't smoke.
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He was the eldest son , his two brothers having been killed in the Great War.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I shared a bedroom with my eldest sister.
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Rosie was the eldest of our four daughters.
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Their eldest son, Howard, is an administrator at Castle Park High School.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A week later villagers found the corpse of his eldest daughter, 12, by the creek.
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It implied, first, primogeniture amongst males, i.e. inheritance by the eldest son, if there was one.
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The couple's eldest son lived for only a few hours.
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The last time she told the story she liked to tell about the eldest was when Carla got married.
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When Jesse died, Delbert was four years old and his eldest sister was twenty-one.