Translations: the word in the other languages
- Afrikaans: ouderling
- Amharic: ሽማግሌ
- Arabic: شيخ
- Azerbaijani: ağsaqqal
- Bashkir: аҡһаҡалдар
- Belarusian: старэйшына
- Bulgarian: старейшина
- Bengali: অগ্রজ
- Bosnian: elder
- Catalan: elder
- Cebuano: si elder
- Czech: starší
- Welsh: elder
- Danish: ældste
- German: elder
- Greek: ο πρεσβύτερος
- Esperanto: elder
- Spanish: el élder
- Estonian: vanem
- Basque: elder
- Persian: سالمند
- Finnish: vanhin
- French: aîné
- Irish: elder
- Scottish Gaelic: elder
- Galician: elder
- Gujarati: એલ્ડર
- Hebrew: אלדר
- Hindi: बड़ी
- Croatian: starješina
- Haitian: èldè
- Hungarian: elder
- Armenian: երեց
- Indonesian: penatua
- Icelandic: eldri
- Italian: l'anziano
- Japanese: elder
- Javanese: sepuh
- Georgian: elder
- Kazakh: старейшина
- Khmer: ឌើរ
- Kannada: ಹಿರಿಯ
- Korean: 장로
- Kyrgyz: старейшина
- Latin: maior
- Luxembourgish: elder
- Lao: ແອວ
- Lithuanian: vyresnysis
- Latvian: elders
- Malagasy: ny loholona
- Mari: шукырак
- Maori: tuakana
- Macedonian: старец
- Malayalam: മൂത്ത
- Mongolian: ахлагч
- Marathi: वडील
- Hill Mari: кого
- Malay: elder
- Maltese: anzjani
- Burmese: ကဲ
- Nepali: प्राचीन
- Dutch: ouderling
- Norwegian: eldste
- Punjabi: ਬਜ਼ੁਰਗ
- Papiamento: e elder
- Polish: starszy
- Portuguese: o élder
- Romanian: vârstnicul
- Russian: старейшина
- Sinhalese: වැඩිමහල්
- Slovak: starší
- Slovenian: stareřina
- Albanian: plaku
- Serbian: старешина
- Sundanese: kokolot
- Swedish: äldste
- Swahili: mzee
- Tamil: மூத்த
- Telugu: elder
- Tajik: старейшина
- Thai: พ
- Tagalog: si elder
- Turkish: yaşlı
- Tatar: старейшина
- Udmurt: тӧроез
- Ukrainian: старійшина
- Urdu: بڑے
- Uzbek: oqsoqol
- Vietnamese: elder
- Xhosa: umdala
- Yiddish: עלטער
- Chinese: 长老
Synonyms, close and similar words for elder
- older
- senior
- geriatric
- presbyter
- fathers
- doyen
- alderman
- starets
- ancient
- sambucus
- old man
- oldster