I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an older/elder brother
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I have two older brothers.
elder statesman
elder statesman
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a respected elder statesman
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
brother
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His elder brother , Nails, still at school, played water-polo for the town and stole cars.
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There was some difficulty about funds until Laxmidas, Mohandas' elder brother and a lawyer, undertook to supply them.
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His elder brother Edwin was next in succession to the baronetcy, but he was a total invalid.
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As the first verdict for Lyle Menendez was read, the elder brother looked straight ahead and then shook his head slowly.
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His two elder brothers and one sister all died as children.
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But as the elder brother remains silent, his lawyers are preparing a new tack in their fight against murder charges.
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Twenty years earlier he fled from an elder brother plotting to kill him.
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Always he had been overshadowed by his elder brother , the famous Black Douglas - and never wished it otherwise.
child
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The elder child may be made to give way to the demands of the younger one in order to keep the peace.
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In 1944, when she was out shopping, a flying bomb killed her elder child .
daughter
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Nenna was struck by the difference in her elder daughter since she had seen her last.
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Bruch suggests that a significantly large proportion of anorexics are eldest or elder daughters .
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Inside the caravan her elder daughter was pushing at the door to come out.
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It took me a while to realise that the elder daughter had only a stump instead of a left arm.
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His elder daughters , seventeen-year-old Nancy and fourteen-year-old Ella, were round all over.
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Kate and John's two elder daughters , Jemima and Jenny, particularly enjoy this part of Christmas.
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Terry wrote out messages for his girlfriend Madeleine and their daughter Sulome, his elder daughter Gabrielle and for his sister Peggy.
sister
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She was, as she always had been, a kind of benign, elder sister .
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Her elder sister married the Reverend Norris, who received the living at Mansfield.
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In fact, although Constanze was not such an accomplished singer as her two elder sisters , she was by no means musically illiterate.
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In contrast, Jane Alexander as the elder sister and Robert Klein as her bulky beau are hitched to plows.
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Mum ran when she was young and my two elder sisters , Lorraine and Lisa, could have been good.
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Two of the survivors had several elder sisters working as compositors.
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Her elder sister had married and moved to her in-laws.
son
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Then his example lured his elder son Bertrand to Tripoli in 1112, and his younger son Alphonse Jourdain there in 1147.
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Their elder son , Nicky, had disappeared on his motorcycle in a cloud of dust and anger.
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One was to her elder son Gamal, who was then in Florida.
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The elder son of the Rev.
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Two of the pioneers of X-ray diffraction were William Bragg and his elder son , Lawrence.
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They always remind me of those twins from that cartoonist my elder son liked.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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John's elder brother died in a boating accident.
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Wright's elder sister is also an actor.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And the elder Miss Snoot at her window high up in Old Odborough looks over the roofs of the town.
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Bruch suggests that a significantly large proportion of anorexics are eldest or elder daughters.
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But his elder brother John thinks that he knew better what the score was than he ever let on.
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His elder brother, Nails, still at school, played water-polo for the town and stole cars.
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In contrast, Jane Alexander as the elder sister and Robert Klein as her bulky beau are hitched to plows.
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Polyneices, the elder son, did the same.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
church
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A church elder , he was convener of the fabric committee of Grandtully/Strathtay and Logiealmond Churches.
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Honest with the church elders who hired him, he told them that his family is his first ministry.
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Read in studio A church playgroup is facing closure because, it's claimed, church elders don't like children.
village
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The village elders wouldn't like it, said Monique, though the football team might.
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The village elders were encouraged to establish a system of local government, and elected their leaders.
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The teachers, the women's committee, village elders and the mayor were overjoyed.
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The parents of the girls and the village elders are saying, Please come and help us.
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A few months later one of the village elders appeared in our office.
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Primitive myth comes to us through the kindness of shamans, village elders , witches, warlocks, and medicine men.
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Envious village elders would instigate whispering campaigns against them, or accuse them directly of witchcraft.
■ VERB
respect
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He couldn't be all that ruthless and cold-hearted if he respected his elders , she mused, her spirits lifting.
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Kids are learning to respect their pop elders , too.
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In the Confucian spirit, he was the respected elder .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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the tribal elders
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At a very early age children learn to self-justify, because they learn it from their elders who are continuously doing it.
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Classical music elders may turn up their noses, but so far, the antics are working.
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However, as stories so often show, what elders say youth disregards.
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I myself have watched many elders labour over their paintings and pour spiritual potency into these creations.
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It is natural enough for them to want to acquire knowledge from their elders.
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Such elders may have given positive meaning to experiences of anxiety, poverty, chronic illness, multiple losses and death.
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The ancestors rarely act on their own initiative: generally these avenging angels of justice are invoked by the local elder .