Synonyms of the word

elder

• adj. Comparative of old: older, greater than another in age or seniority.
• n. An older person or an older member, usually a leader, of some community.
• n. One who is older than another.
• n. One who lived at an earlier period; a predecessor.
• n. An officer of a church, sometimes having teaching responsibilities.
• n. A clergyman authorized to administer all the sacraments.
• n. (US, Mormonism) One ordained to the lowest office in the Melchizedek priesthood.
• n. (US, Mormonism) Male missionary.
• n. (Mormonism, often capitalized) Title for a male missionary; title for a general authority.
• n. (paganism and Heathenry) A pagan or Heathen priest or priestess.
• v. (Quakerism) To admonish or reprove for improper conduct by the elders of the meeting.
• n. A small tree, Sambucus nigra, having white flowers in a cluster, and edible purple berries.
• n. Any of the other species of the genus Sambucus: small trees, shrubs or herbaceous perennials with red,…

adult

• n. A fully grown human or animal.
• n. A person who has reached the legal age of majority, generally 18 years of age.
• adj. Fully grown.
• adj. Intended for or restricted to adults rather than children.
• adj. Containing material of an explicit sexual nature; designating pornography.
• v. (nonstandard, rare) To (cause to) be or become an adult.

bush

• n. (horticulture) A woody plant distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and lower height, being usually…
• n. (slang, vulgar) A person's pubic hair, especially a woman's; loosely, a woman's vulva.
• n. A shrub cut off, or a shrublike branch of a tree.
• n. A shrub or branch, properly, a branch of ivy (sacred to Bacchus), hung out at vintners' doors, or as a…
• n. (hunting) The tail, or brush, of a fox.
• v. (intransitive) To branch thickly in the manner of a bush.
• v. To set bushes for; to support with bushes.
• v. To use a bush harrow on (land), for covering seeds sown; to harrow with a bush.
• n. (archaic) A tavern or wine merchant.
• n. (often with "the") Rural areas, typically remote, wooded, undeveloped and uncultivated.
• n. (Canada) A woodlot or bluff on a farm.
• adv. (Australia) Towards the direction of the outback.
• adj. (colloquial) Not skilled; not professional; not major league.
• n. (baseball) Amateurish behavior, short for "bush league behavior".
• n. A thick washer or hollow cylinder of metal (also bushing).
• n. A mechanical attachment, usually a metallic socket with a screw thread, such as the mechanism by which…
• n. A piece of copper, screwed into a gun, through which the venthole is bored.
• v. (transitive) To furnish with a bush or lining.

grownup

• adj. Of, pertaining to, or suitable for adults.
• adj. Adult; fully developed; mature.
• n. An adult. (used especially by children).

older

• adj. comparative form of old: more old, elder, senior.
• adj. elderly.

senior

• adj. Older; superior.
• adj. Higher in rank, dignity, or office.
• adj. (US) Of or pertaining to a student's final academic year at a high school (twelfth grade) or university.
• n. Someone seen as deserving respect or reverence because of their age.
• n. (obsolete, biblical) An elder or presbyter in the early Church.
• n. Someone older than someone else (with possessive).
• n. (US) A final-year student at a high school or university.

shrub

• n. A woody plant smaller than a tree, and usually with several stems from the same base.
• v. (obsolete) To lop; to prune.
• v. (transitive, Kenyan English) To mispronounce a word by replacing its consonant sound(s) with another or…
• n. A liquor composed of vegetable acid, fruit juice (especially lemon), sugar, sometimes vinegar, and a small…