eldest
Example Sentences
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Stephen also spoke about how his own children, not least his eldest son who is the same age his father was when Victoria died, never got to have an aunt in their lives.
From BBC
She recruited her eldest daughter and niece to work in the store.
That act caused the girls’ father to become king and put his eldest daughter, who was 10, next in the line of succession.
“Sena gets a new uniform because he’s the eldest and there’s no one to hand one down to him.”
From Literature
His eldest is in college, studying to be a teacher.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
