eldest
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- adjective
- /ˈɛldɪst/
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mayor
- The eldest member of the family shared stories from her childhood.
- eldest son
- eldest daughter
- eldest brother
Why didn't Kim Jong Il's eldest son become leader?
- Why didn't Kim Jong Il's eldest son become leader?
- And so let's say your eldest son, you sign him up for Fridays, let's say.
- Well, I'm, I'm the eldest of seven kids and my mum was a single mother.
- And even now that my eldest son is a bit old for me to read stories to him, he reads little novels himself.
- And being the eldest, there was a lot of kind of expectation for me to take over the family business.
Examples
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OK, so my eldest daughter has a voice like Whitney's.
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My eldest sibling always sets a good example for the rest of us.
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And being the eldest, there was a lot of kind of expectation for me to take over the family business.
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And even now that my eldest son is a bit old for me to read stories to him, he reads little novels himself.
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It's because the emperor was not simply naming his eldest son his successor.
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Well, I'm, I'm the eldest of seven kids and my mum was a single mother.
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And that is about a family whose eldest son dies in a boating accident.
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That is because our eldest son, Fraser, our five year old, when we told him that we were having a boy, he instantly went, I want to call him Leo.
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I also think there's a lot to be said about she is the eldest child and she's the eldest daughter.
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Why didn't Kim Jong Il's eldest son become leader?
Synonyms
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Born first among a person's children
Compounds
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word eldest is made of old plus -est, where -est means 'most' or 'first'. So when we say someone is the eldest son or daughter we mean they are 'most old' or the 'firstborn' in the family.