See also: Older

English

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Pronunciation

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Adjective

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older

  1. comparative form of old: more old, elder, senior
    My older brother and I are Catholic twins. He’s older by eleven months, not quite a year older than me.

Adjective

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older (not comparable)

  1. elderly
    The thoughtful lad helped an older lady across the street.

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Elfdalian

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Etymology

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From Old Norse aldrigi, cognate with Swedish aldrig.

Adverb

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older

  1. never

Norwegian Bokmål

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Older

Etymology

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From Old Norse ǫlr (compare Icelandic elri, Danish el, Swedish al), from Proto-Germanic *aluz, *alusō (compare English alder), variant of *alizō, *alisō (compare Dutch els, German Erle), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisos.

Noun

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older m or f (definite singular olderen or oldra, indefinite plural oldre or oldrer, definite plural oldrene)

  1. alder (a tree of the Alnus genus)

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

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From Old Norse ǫlr (compare Icelandic elri, Danish el, Swedish al), from Proto-Germanic *aluz, *alusō (compare English alder), variant of *alizō, *alisō (compare Dutch els, German Erle), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisos.

Noun

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older m (definite singular olderen, indefinite plural oldrar, definite plural oldrane)
older f (definite singular oldra, indefinite plural oldrer, definite plural oldrene)

  1. alder (a tree of the Alnus genus)

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