Definition of Eldest

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Definition of Eldest
	Eldest Oldest; longest in duration. Born or living first, or before the others, as a son, daughter, brother, etc.; first in origin. See Elder. Related Definitions: As, Before, Born, Brother, Daughter, Duration, Elder, First, In, Living, Or, Origin, See, Son, The

Eldest Quotations

Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.
Thomas Fuller

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

Self-defence is Nature's eldest law.
John Dryden

I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.
Barry Gibb

My father was unemployed and I was the eldest of seven children. We were very poor. And when you ask how did we support ourselves, the only funding that we had was unemployment payments.
John Hume

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

The stag tells him that he is the eldest of the sons - the father's favorite - and he warns the father that if he tries to shoot any of the stags, their antlers will tear him to pieces.
Georg Solti

Well, Brett was a pretty laid back kid and I think all the pressure was heaped upon my eldest boy, Bobby.
Bobby Hull

The eldest and biggest of the litter was a dog cub, and when he drew his first breath he was less than five inches long from his nose to where his tail joined his back-bone.
Henry Williamson

Sorrow is held the eldest child of sin.
John Webster

Eldest Translations

eldest in Norwegian is eldst

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