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)