Definitions of elder:

• noun:   a person who is older than you are
• noun:   any of various church officers
• noun:   any of numerous shrubs or small trees of temperate and subtropical northern hemisphere having white flowers and berrylike fruit
• adjective:   used of the older of two persons of the same name especially used to distinguish a father from his son
• adjective:   older brother or sister
• name:  A surname (common: 1 in 8333 families; popularity rank in the U.S.: #1005)