eldership
World English Dictionary
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| —adj | |
| 1. | Compare older born earlier; senior |
| 2. | (in piquet and similar card games) denoting or relating to the nondealer (the elder hand), who has certain advantages in the play |
| 3. | archaic |
| a. prior in rank, position, or office | |
| b. of a previous time; former | |
| —n | |
| 4. | an older person; one's senior |
| 5. | anthropol a senior member of a tribe who has influence or authority |
| 6. | (in certain Protestant Churches) a lay office having teaching, pastoral, or administrative functions |
| 7. | another word for presbyter |
| [Old English eldra, comparative of eald | |
| usage The word elder is being increasingly used, as a more respectful way of referring to older people: elder care, elder abuse | |
| 'eldership1 | |
| —n | |
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| eldership | |
noun | |
| the office of elder |
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Eldership
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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