1. eldest - Noun
2. eldest - Adjective
3. eldest - Adjective Satellite
Oldest; longest in duration.
Born or living first, or before the others, as a son, daughter, brother, etc.; first in origin. See Elder.
Source: Webster's dictionaryLight, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building. Thomas Fuller
On the king's gate the moss grew gray; The king came not. They call'd him dead; And made his eldest son, one day, Slave in his father's stead. Helen Hunt Jackson
Father was the eldest son and the heir apparent, and he set the standard for being a Rockefeller very high, so every achievement was taken for granted and perfection was the norm. David Rockefeller
You shall find, that there cannot be a greater spur to the attaining what you would have the eldest learn, and know himself, than to set him upon teaching it his younger brothers and sisters. John Locke
Ruin, eldest daughter of Zeus, she blinds us all, that fatal madness-she with those delicate feet of hers, never touching the earth, gliding over the heads of men to trap us all. She entangles one man, now another. Homer
The rank of the eldest brother is like that of father. Ali al-Rida