1 (of people, especially of three or more members of the same family) oldest:
Tom is my eldest son.
2 (the eldest) used without a noun immediately after it to show who is the oldest of three or more people:
the eldest of their three children -< OLD
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for eldest is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is eldest a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, eldest is tagged as adjective.
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