Crossword-Solution: ELDEST 6 letters, 139 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

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Word Word Type Definition
Eldest a. Oldest; longest in duration.
Eldest a. Born or living first, or before the others, as a son,
daughter, brother, etc.; first in origin. See Elder.

We have 139 clues for the answer “ELDEST”

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Adam on Bonanza (brother) 1 answer
Adam, of the "Bonanza" brothers 1 answer
Firstborn in a family 1 answer
Adjective for Cain 1 answer
Alec's position in the Baldwin family 1 answer
Alec, among the Baldwin brothers 1 answer
Alien captures sources of precious metal, giving nothing away to one generally expected to succeed (6) 1 answer
An adjective for Esau 1 answer
Benefactor of primogeniture 1 answer
Beneficiary via primogeniture 1 answer
Big winner in primogeniture 1 answer
Born before all the others 1 answer
Bossy sibling, perhaps 1 answer
Cain, among Adam's sons 1 answer
Cain, of Adam's sons 1 answer
Chico, of the Marx Brothers 1 answer
Chico, vis- -vis Groucho and Harpo 1 answer
Child often having special responsibilities 1 answer
Child with responsibilities, traditionally 1 answer
Child with the most responsibilities, traditionally 1 answer
Danny, vis-à-vis the "Bloodline" siblings 1 answer
Describing some tribal leaders 1 answer
Destined to inherit the throne 1 answer
Family history qualifier 1 answer
Favorite son, maybe 1 answer
Fiona, of the gallagher kids on "shameless" 1 answer
First among progeny 1 answer
First among siblings 1 answer
First among the children 1 answer
First born child 1 answer
First in age 1 answer
First in line for the throne, perhaps 1 answer
First in line, in a way 1 answer
First in line, perhaps 1 answer
First in line, usually 1 answer
First-born of siblings 1 answer
First-born, compared to the others 1 answer
Firstborn child 1 answer
Firstborn one 1 answer
Firstborn sibling 1 answer
Firstborn, among siblings 1 answer
Furthest along 1 answer
Goneril's status. 1 answer
Hand to the dealer's left, in card games. 1 answer
He inherits the title. 1 answer
Heir apparent, often 1 answer
Heir to the throne, as a rule 1 answer
In favor of primogeniture, maybe 1 answer
In position to inherit the throne, say 1 answer
Inheritor under primogeniture 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with ELDEST (5)

Before thir eyes in sudden view appear The secrets of the hoarie deep, a dark Illimitable Ocean without bound, Without dimension, where length, breadth, and highth, And time and place are lost; where eldest Night And _Chaos_, Ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal _Anarchie_, amidst the noise Of endless warrs and by confusion stand.
Paradise Lost John Milton 1991
The voice which had called her attention was that of the reverend and famous John Wilson, the eldest clergyman of Boston, a great scholar, like most of his contemporaries in the profession, and withal a man of kind and genial spirit.
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992
But as to the boys, you see—what’s to become of them if anything happens to you?” “It has been my idea to let the eldest one succeed me—” “Oh, come! Suppose the firm don’t want him?” “I hadn’t thought of that, but—” “Now, look here; you want to get right down to business and stop dreaming.
What Is Man? And Other Stories Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1993
Lapham asked her eldest daughter, who lounged into the parlour a moment with her wrap stringing from her arm, while the younger went straight to bed.
The Rise of Silas Lapham William Dean Howells 2008
Some people are surprized, I believe, that the eldest was not, but Isabella would have him called Henry, which I thought very pretty of her.
Emma Jane Austen 1994

Quotes with ELDEST (3)

Eldest taught me about ancient religions that worshiped the sun. I never understood why- it's just a ball of light and heat. But if the sun of Sol-Earth swirls in colors and lights like that girl's hair, well, I can see why the ancients would worship that.
Beth Revis
The spirit who inhabits her animates us all. Destroy the host, you destroy the power. The young die first; the old wither slowly; the eldest perhaps would go last. But she is the Queen of the Damned, and the Damned can't live without her.
Anne Rice The Queen of the Damned
we as authors have been writing about people we aren't for forever. We find a way to empathise, we find a way in. Female characters are no different. All they are are characters. They are people too. Instead of asking yourself, "How do I write this female soldier?" ask yourself, "How do I write this soldier? Where is she from, how was she raised, does she have a sense of humour? Is she big and tall, is she short and petite? How does her size affect her ability to fight? What …
Adrienne Kress
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Rock & Roll, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 197 times in crossword archives (1952–2025).