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The Anishinabek Nation FASD and Neurodivergent Conference starts in a good way with Thanksgiving by Elders Neil Monague and Beatrice Twance-Hynes.
Sometimes nature enforces respect for our elders.
I'm not sure how you figure. They literally VOTED with their elders, FOR the elderly.
Morals are a young dragon thing, all dragons get corrupted by the time they become elders
When people say you should respect your elders but these are your elders.
📜 This word in 1898 dialectexpand
', ne.Lan.^ 2. Phr. elders' hours, respectable, seemly hours, such as would be kept by the ' elders of the church.'
Joseph Wright, English Dialect Dictionary (1898–1905)
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- geriatric56%
Elderly, old.
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(chiefly, Scotland) A progenitor or ancestor.
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(literally) An elderly man.
- Lan51%
' Lord,' used in exclamations and mild oaths.
- holy hour51%
(Ireland, informal) the hour between 2.30 pm and 3.30 pm that pubs formerly had to shut to comply with licencing laws.