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Definition of the day : « eldest »

  • adj advanced in age
  • adj obsolete, outdated
  • adj traditional, long-established
Example sentences :
  • The eldest was about the age of twelve, the youngest about seven.
  • Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
  • Nizam, the eldest, came to Gilgit and appealed to the British.
  • Extract from : « The Story of the Malakand Field Force » by Sir Winston S. Churchill
  • Joseph is the eldest son; but, of this I am sure, Napoleon will be the head of this family.
  • Extract from : « The Boy Life of Napoleon » by Eugenie Foa
  • You say the eldest is near sixteen and well come on in his studies.
  • Extract from : « Night and Morning, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  • The eldest of these is accidentally killed by the second, 2440.
  • Extract from : « Beowulf » by Unknown
  • My youngest daughter is almost as much of a woman as my eldest, is she not, sir?'
  • Extract from : « Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit » by Charles Dickens
  • She was then five and thirty, and her eldest boy, Thomas, was fourteen.
  • Extract from : « The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete » by Emile Zola
  • She was surrounded by her eldest four sons, for it was seven o'clock in the morning.
  • Extract from : « The Widow O'Callaghan's Boys » by Gulielma Zollinger
  • His other son, the eldest, John, comes to me I expect in summer.
  • Extract from : « The Letters of Robert Burns » by Robert Burns
  • He left an ample fortune to his sons, the eldest of whom was created Baron Shelburne.
  • Extract from : « Self-Help » by Samuel Smiles