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ˈɛl dɪstel·dest
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Princeton's WordNet
firstborn, eldestadjective
the offspring who came first in the order of birth
firstborn, eldestadjective
first in order of birth
"the firstborn child"
Wiktionary
eldestadjective
; greatest in age or seniority.
eldest son
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Eldestadjective
The superlative of eld,
Etymology: ea , Saxon.
We will establish our estate upon
Our eldest Malcolm, whom we name hereafter
The prince of Cumberland. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.The mother’s and her eldest daughter’s grace,
It seems, had brib’d him to prolong their space. Dryden.Eldest parents signifies either the oldest men and women that have had children, or those who have longest had issue. John Locke.
Webster Dictionary
Eldestadjective
oldest; longest in duration
Eldestadjective
born or living first, or before the others, as a son, daughter, brother, etc.; first in origin. See Elder
Etymology: [AS. yldest, superl. of eald old. See Elder, a.]
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Eldest
Eldest is the second book in the Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini and the sequel to Eragon. Eldest was first published in hardcover on August 23, 2005, and was released in paperback in September 2006. Eldest has been released in an audiobook format, and as an ebook. Like Eragon, Eldest became a New York Times bestseller. A deluxe edition of Eldest was released on September 26, 2006, including new information and art by both the illustrator and the author. Other editions of Eldest are translated into different languages. Eldest begins following several important events in Eragon. The story is the continued adventures of Eragon and his dragon Saphira, centering around their journey to the realm of the Elves in order to further Eragon's training as a Dragon Rider. Other plots in the story focus on Roran, Eragon's cousin, who leads the inhabitants of Carvahall to Surda to join the Varden, and Nasuada as she takes on her father's role as leader of the Varden. Eldest ends at the Battle of the Burning Plains, where Eragon faces a new Dragon Rider, Murtagh, and a new dragon, Thorn. Reviews pointed out the similarities between Eldest and other works such as The Lord of the Rings, while praising the themes of the book, such as friendship and honor. Several of these reviews commented on the style and genre of Eldest, while others considered the possibility of a film adaptation similar to the adaption of its prequel Eragon.
Dictionary of Nautical Terms
eldest
The old navy term for first, as applied to the senior lieutenant.
British National Corpus
Adjectives Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'eldest' in Adjectives Frequency: #1021
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of eldest in Chaldean Numerology is: 6
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of eldest in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2
Examples of eldest in a Sentence
We just said’stop; there is still fight in him,’ then his oxygen levels started to pick up, and he started coming back to us. By Easter Sunday, he was stable enough that I felt comfortable enough to have a lie down. I was strong in that belief that he was our Easter miracle. When we told our eldest, he said ‘he’s like Jesus’ – because he had been learning about it in school.
My three youngest girls love it, they want to go to school in it, my eldest daughter was a fan up until I ordered it. Now she's at secondary school and thinking 'I don't want my friends to know.'.
Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.
O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven It hath the primal eldest curse upon 't, A brother's murder.
Huffman's lawyers argued that the sentencing guidelines in those cases were much higher and reserved for the mastermind of schemes, not mere participants. Prosecutors, meanwhile, had argued that universities and testing companies were the victims of the schemes, and the amount that parents paid should correspond to the penalties' severity.But US Probation and Pretrial Services, which prepares pre-sentence investigation reports for each defendant, has argued overall, that the universities and testing companies suffered no monetary harm, and the price of the parents' bribes is therefore not relevant to any sentences. Actress Felicity Huffman loved ones wrote letters of support to the judgeMacy and other loved ones submitted letters to Judge Indira Talwani on Huffman's behalf, pleading for leniency. Each letter outlined Huffman's loyalty and commitment to the writer — an attempt to show Actress Felicity Huffman role in the admissions scam was an outlier in Actress Felicity Huffman life. Macy also shed some light on the immediate aftermath of Huffman's early morning arrest by the FBI in March.Two days after the arrest, Macy wrote, their eldest daughter was headed for an audition at a school she had her heart set on — one that didn't require SAT scores. But when Actress Felicity Huffman got off the plane, the school emailed Actress Felicity Huffman, formally rescinding its audition invitation because of the scandal. Eva Longoria and other celebrities write letters of support for actress Felicity Huffman ahead of Eva Longoria sentencingMacy wrote Eva Longoria and other celebrities daughter.
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