older

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈəʊldə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈoʊldɚ/

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• Rhymes: -əʊldə(ɹ)

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.

   • 1982, Wall of Voodoo, “Mexican Radio”, in Call of the West:

     I feel a hot wind on my shoulder / And the touch of a world that is older

older (not comparable)

1. elderly

   The thoughtful lad helped an older lady across the street.

• Elrod, Loder, lored, orled, roled

From Old Norse aldrigi, cognate with Swedish aldrig.

older

1. never

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.

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)

• or

• “older” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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.

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)

• or

• “older” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.