Elder in a sentence as a noun

Wanderers in this crazy world, we have lost a mentor, a wise elder. Hackers for right, we are one down, we have lost one of our own.

How dare he talk back to an elder! Regardless, xtal's statement about hacker culture is accurate.

Sounds like a good way to accidentally summon an elder god via emoticon. Now I have a new novel plot...

This has really confused our elder staff. * Application shortcuts have started hanging and throwing the "Jim" screen, but the same web pages work fine usually.

Will get no answer because everybody is a villager, and the guy making bombs in the afternoons is a village elder the rest of the day. There are no bad guys.

Elder in a sentence as an adjective

I think Digg is the ultimate example of where the "elder statesmen" become the only people that matter. Anyone who's smart should be able to contribute w/o passing some sort of exclusionary bar.

He managed to **** 4 people, get off the subway and intimidate more people, before finally brought down by a 62 elder man. Everyone can be armchair quarterbacks, shake their heads in disappointment, raise their fits in anger, but when you are in a situation such as the above, or witness a knife attack - you are stunned.

My friend tells the story of being in one meeting with the various doctors, and one of the elder ones made a snide comment about another doctor 'not being here long enough to understand how things are done in this place' - to which the reply was 'I've been here for 17 years'. Myself personally, I worked as a neurology tech for four years, and the doctors I worked with were a broad mix.

I'm reminded of my own father, who worked like a dog since he was a pre-teen, and simply hasn't been able to come to terms with retirement, choosing to start another job in his elder years instead of writing, painting and fishing which he has an obvious talent and interest in. I tell myself that I won't succumb to this failure to live life and try to overcompensate a bit by traveling a lot, photography and many stalled attempts at writing.

When an elder passes down certain knowledge or framework upon a newbie, it will not be immediately obvious why things have to be the way they are. After some time they finally see that the knowledge of elders has already accounted for so much and in such an elegant manner that they don't need to worry about these problems any longer. They've already been solved by elder alteration mages in the cleanest ways possible, polished by generations of mages that came after them. Some newbies would rebel, against the elders, but only a few lucky ones actually manage to contribute anything useful, albeit this drive of ambition, trial, and error is often what causes major advancements for the whole guild, akin to the evolution process.

Elder definitions

noun

a person who is older than you are

See also: senior

noun

any of numerous shrubs or small trees of temperate and subtropical northern hemisphere having white flowers and berrylike fruit

noun

any of various church officers

adjective

used of the older of two persons of the same name especially used to distinguish a father from his son; "Bill Adams, Sr."

See also: older