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Meanings of elder brother in English
Synonyms
Examples for "big brother"
Examples for "big brother"
1
And that big brother of mine said I could not get in.
2
And sometimes they wondered what adventures the big brother might be enjoying.
3
Her mother and father and big brother are so kind and loving.
4
Me too, he said, looking up at his big brother in relief.
5
Before Sam left his big brother gave him some instructions in private.
1
Brian was different from his older brother-indeed ,differentfrom most Fawcett men.
2
My older brother had a severe asthma attack on a family holiday.
3
His older brother Logan, 24, is in a similar line of work.
4
The older brother married a woman their family had known for years.
5
My brother, my older brother, died when we were both quite young.
Usage of elder brother in English
1
He looked, in that moment, a good deal like his elder brother.
2
It was a mystery; and it made the elder brother very uncomfortable.
3
At this crisis the elder brother and sister departed for Mount Righi.
4
The elder brother seldom if ever appeared; the younger was always there.
5
Serge, the elder brother, had fractured his right ulna at age six.
6
He stands to his pupils in the relation of an elder brother.
7
The elder brother looked thoughtfully from one of us to the other.
8
He arrived in South Africa with his elder brother, Aragaw, in 2016.
9
Now at this the elder brother grew as gray as the dawn.
10
Thus the discourse ended, but it left the elder brother quite confounded.
11
He smiled upon the elder brother with obvious pleasure at the prospect.
12
The relation of elder brother and younger was already established between them.
13
The elder brother smiled when he heard that, and thought to himself:
14
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15
He gave him the daughter of his own elder brother to wife.
16
But elder brother Gavin persuaded him to try out for Rothwell Juniors.
This collocation consists of:
Elder brother through the time
Elder brother across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Rare