Loading page
elder has 4 distinct synonyms spread across 3 of its 4 senses. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. WordNet records no antonym for it — antonymy is a relation between word forms rather than concepts, so it is deliberately sparse.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
any of numerous shrubs or small trees of temperate and subtropical northern hemisphere having white flowers and berrylike fruit
any of various church officers
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for elder come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.