(a.) Born or living first, or before the others, as a son, daughter, brother, etc.; first in origin. See Elder.
Example Sentences:
(1) By statistical analysis, we showed that the B27 haplotype carried by the eldest member with AS in each family was more likely to be associated with disease.
(2) The eldest patient was 49 years old, but 75% of the patients were younger than 20 years.
(3) He said he had left Rakhine, in Burma, with his eldest son three months ago.
(4) Elisabeth Haukeland’s eldest son and daughter both survived the massacre, and they aren’t going back to Utøya.
(5) In the case of a family with two children where one parent has an income of £54,000, the total amount of child benefit is currently £1,752 a year (£20.30 a week for the eldest child, plus £13.40 a week for the other child).
(6) The analysis of the body mass among the eldest men and women, especially, (60-70 years) shows that those with lower body weight are more capable of working at the age of pension.
(7) Arturo was the eldest of five brothers running the trafficking ring which is thought to control a significant part of the cocaine and heroin smuggled into the US.
(8) Shackling and ‘a full strip search’ On the morning of 21 October 2013, LaTonia Wilson was pulling out of her mechanic’s garage with her husband, Atheris Mann; her eldest son, Jessie Patrick; and their two-year-old son Marquise.
(9) The eldest of three siblings whose father worked for the Inland Revenue, James left school at 16 to work in a tax office herself, and in 1941 married Ernest White, of the Royal Army Medical Corps.
(10) We report the 113th case in the eldest known patient at the time of diagnosis.
(11) Bianca, Ms Rinehart's eldest daughter, said her younger sister Hope Welker "was pretty much at her wit's end" and felt "kicked in the stomach" after the way Hancock treated her.
(12) The eldest was 25 years of age, the youngest was 3 years.
(13) Trump’s eldest daughter, heiress-apparent to her father’s real estate empire, said she had worked with him for more than a decade and seen him hire people from “all walks of life”.
(14) Just because you say something on Twitter, doesn’t make it so.” Trump has previously said that he would leave his business operations to his three eldest children, Donald Jr, Eric and Ivanka, though whether he plans to continue with that idea was not clear from his tweets on Wednesday.
(15) Today he mentors young people who grew up in a similar situation to him, including Mark Duggan’s eldest son, Kamani.
(16) Mandela's eldest granddaughter Ndileka Mandela was among family members who visited him in hospital on Monday.
(17) They seemed to be discussing whether or not we should set off, but the eldest, who operated the boat, gave the go-ahead.
(18) Murdoch, 84, who is currently chairman and CEO of the company, will become executive co-chairman alongside his eldest son Lachlan.
(19) Donald Trump Jr, Trump’s eldest child, has insisted that Trump’s holdings would go into a trust managed by him and his siblings Eric and Ivanka Trump.
(20) It computes the likelihood of a complex pedigree allowing for many non-standard features including multiple alleles (up to four per locus), multiple mates, more than one mating in the eldest generation, consanguinity, missing or partially tested persons, and different recombination fractions between males and females.