Eldest
adjective
The oldest out of a group of people or things, often used to refer to the oldest child in a family.
John is the eldest son in his family.
Often appears as...
- eldest child
- eldest daughter
adjective
The oldest out of a group of people or things, often used to refer to the oldest child in a family.
John is the eldest son in his family.
Often appears as...
- eldest child
- eldest daughter
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Pro Tip 1/3Family Position
Used to specify hierarchy in family based on age, with a respectful tone towards tradition and family.
As the eldest, Maria often helps her parents with important decisions.
Pro Tip 2/3Cultural Respect
In some cultures, the eldest sibling has a role with more responsibilities and is given more respect.
In their community, the eldest brother hosts all the family gatherings.
Pro Tip 3/3Hierarchy Misassumption
Don't assume 'eldest' implies leadership or superiority; it refers just to age within a group.
Though he's the eldest, he doesn't make all the family decisions.
Pro Tip 1/3Family Position
Used to specify hierarchy in family based on age, with a respectful tone towards tradition and family.
As the eldest, Maria often helps her parents with important decisions.
Pro Tip 2/3Cultural Respect
In some cultures, the eldest sibling has a role with more responsibilities and is given more respect.
In their community, the eldest brother hosts all the family gatherings.
Pro Tip 3/3Hierarchy Misassumption
Don't assume 'eldest' implies leadership or superiority; it refers just to age within a group.
Though he's the eldest, he doesn't make all the family decisions.
Pro Tip 1/3Family Position
Used to specify hierarchy in family based on age, with a respectful tone towards tradition and family.
As the eldest, Maria often helps her parents with important decisions.
Pro Tip 2/3Cultural Respect
In some cultures, the eldest sibling has a role with more responsibilities and is given more respect.
In their community, the eldest brother hosts all the family gatherings.
Pro Tip 3/3Hierarchy Misassumption
Don't assume 'eldest' implies leadership or superiority; it refers just to age within a group.
Though he's the eldest, he doesn't make all the family decisions.
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Nat Geo's Aaron Huey's...
someone turned around to me on the bus and asked where are you going because there were no hotels. There was no place to go and I just said I'm gonna go camping at the end of the bus route and they just shook their heads and they said we're going to a wedding, come with us and I ended up at the wedding of the eldest daughter
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The rise and fall of the...
helped by an extensive system of horse messengers and relay posts. Robust trade continued at sea, especially in blue-and-white porcelain, which combined white pottery from Mongol China with blue dye from Mongol Iran. But this was not to last. Succession to the Great Khan didn't automatically go to the eldest son,
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A Photographer Revisits...
well I'm gonna camp when the bus stops at the end of the road and she just looked at me she said no hoko please don't do that and she took me with her and she took me to a wedding and that wedding was of the eldest daughter of the family that ended up adopting me in this region and they got me drunk and
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I am here to confuse you...
and a supporter of a soccer team that most of her children detested my maternal grandmother who sexually racy jokes outraged her children was pregnant 14 times 11 survived the eldest is my mother who became the first woman in her
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Four sisters in Ancient...
A hush comes over the anxious slaves. In walks not their master but, instead, a pregnant teenager. It is the master's eldest daughter, age 15, who is already a veteran of marriage and child birth. Guess what her name is.
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Why should you read Toni...
but the pair live a half-life. Shunned by the wider community, the two have only each other and the ghost for company. Sethe is consumed by thoughts of the spirit, whom she believes to be her eldest daughter.
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Why design should...
and I am the eldest of five children. I have three sisters and one brother. They are all average height. I am incredibly fortunate to have been born into a family that cultivated my curiosity and my tenacity,
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Why giving away our...
you're not going to change the trajectory of whether that student will be ready for college. So Melinda, this is you and your eldest daughter, Jenn. And just taken about three weeks ago, I think,
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How racial bias works --...
How did it happen in others? When my eldest son was 16 years old, he discovered that when white people look at him, they feel fear. Elevators are the worst, he said. When those doors close,
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Young Lioness Saved from...
traveling with her eldest daughter flip has a soft spot for this lioness but she didn't endear herself to the people of poorest as a youngster she killed
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Nat Geo's Aaron Huey's...
someone turned around to me on the bus and asked where are you going because there were no hotels. There was no place to go and I just said I'm gonna go camping at the end of the bus route and they just shook their heads and they said we're going to a wedding, come with us and I ended up at the wedding of the eldest daughter
Video examples
The rise and fall of the...
helped by an extensive system of horse messengers and relay posts. Robust trade continued at sea, especially in blue-and-white porcelain, which combined white pottery from Mongol China with blue dye from Mongol Iran. But this was not to last. Succession to the Great Khan didn't automatically go to the eldest son,
Video examples
A Photographer Revisits...
well I'm gonna camp when the bus stops at the end of the road and she just looked at me she said no hoko please don't do that and she took me with her and she took me to a wedding and that wedding was of the eldest daughter of the family that ended up adopting me in this region and they got me drunk and
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I am here to confuse you...
and a supporter of a soccer team that most of her children detested my maternal grandmother who sexually racy jokes outraged her children was pregnant 14 times 11 survived the eldest is my mother who became the first woman in her
Video examples
Four sisters in Ancient...
A hush comes over the anxious slaves. In walks not their master but, instead, a pregnant teenager. It is the master's eldest daughter, age 15, who is already a veteran of marriage and child birth. Guess what her name is.
Video examples
Why should you read Toni...
but the pair live a half-life. Shunned by the wider community, the two have only each other and the ghost for company. Sethe is consumed by thoughts of the spirit, whom she believes to be her eldest daughter.
Video examples
Why design should...
and I am the eldest of five children. I have three sisters and one brother. They are all average height. I am incredibly fortunate to have been born into a family that cultivated my curiosity and my tenacity,
Video examples
Why giving away our...
you're not going to change the trajectory of whether that student will be ready for college. So Melinda, this is you and your eldest daughter, Jenn. And just taken about three weeks ago, I think,
Video examples
How racial bias works --...
How did it happen in others? When my eldest son was 16 years old, he discovered that when white people look at him, they feel fear. Elevators are the worst, he said. When those doors close,
Video examples
Young Lioness Saved from...
traveling with her eldest daughter flip has a soft spot for this lioness but she didn't endear herself to the people of poorest as a youngster she killed
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Quote examples
Peter Zumthor
Swiss Architect
The first 10 years of my professional life had only to do with running away from my father. He was a wonderful cabinet-maker, and me being the eldest son, I had to take over his shop, his profession and so on and so on. I tried to escape by going to art school and then going on to industrial design and then interior design.
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Chris O'Dowd
Irish Actor
Well, when you're the youngest of five, parents kind of lose interest more and more through the children. I think my eldest brother was under loads of pressure to do something amazing with his life, but by the time I came around they were like, 'Well, let's hope he doesn't kill a guy.
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Marie Antoinette
French Royalty
I feel more and more, every day of my life, how much my dear mamma has done for my establishment. I was the youngest of all her daughters, and she has treated me as if I were the eldest, so that my whole soul is filled with the most tender gratitude.
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John Hume
Irish Politician
My father was unemployed and I was the eldest of seven children. We were very poor. And when you ask how did we support ourselves, the only funding that we had was unemployment payments.
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Naveen Andrews
British Actor
I still have a great friendship with my eldest son's mum. She's my mate. We have this wonderful son who's 6 ft. 3, gorgeous, and I'm his dad. I've not been a total failure.
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg
American Judge
My mother graduated from high school at 15 and went to work to support the family because the eldest son went to college.
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Emily Dickinson
American Poet
Nature is our eldest mother; she will do no harm.
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John Webster
English Playwright
Sorrow is held the eldest child of sin.
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John Dryden
English Poet
Self-defence is Nature's eldest law.
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Sanam Saeed
Pakistani Actress
I'm the eldest of three siblings.
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Peter Zumthor
Swiss Architect
The first 10 years of my professional life had only to do with running away from my father. He was a wonderful cabinet-maker, and me being the eldest son, I had to take over his shop, his profession and so on and so on. I tried to escape by going to art school and then going on to industrial design and then interior design.
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Chris O'Dowd
Irish Actor
Well, when you're the youngest of five, parents kind of lose interest more and more through the children. I think my eldest brother was under loads of pressure to do something amazing with his life, but by the time I came around they were like, 'Well, let's hope he doesn't kill a guy.
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Marie Antoinette
French Royalty
I feel more and more, every day of my life, how much my dear mamma has done for my establishment. I was the youngest of all her daughters, and she has treated me as if I were the eldest, so that my whole soul is filled with the most tender gratitude.
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John Hume
Irish Politician
My father was unemployed and I was the eldest of seven children. We were very poor. And when you ask how did we support ourselves, the only funding that we had was unemployment payments.
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Naveen Andrews
British Actor
I still have a great friendship with my eldest son's mum. She's my mate. We have this wonderful son who's 6 ft. 3, gorgeous, and I'm his dad. I've not been a total failure.
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg
American Judge
My mother graduated from high school at 15 and went to work to support the family because the eldest son went to college.
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Emily Dickinson
American Poet
Nature is our eldest mother; she will do no harm.
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John Webster
English Playwright
Sorrow is held the eldest child of sin.
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John Dryden
English Poet
Self-defence is Nature's eldest law.
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Sanam Saeed
Pakistani Actress
I'm the eldest of three siblings.
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