elder brothers
Senior male siblings
Elder brothers are brothers who are older than oneself.
The phrase appears in contexts where birth order matters—inheritance, family hierarchy, or sibling dynamics: His elder brothers had already claimed the best rooms.
Elder rather than older gives the phrase a slightly formal or traditional tone, common in legal contexts and period literature.
- looking up toAdmiring and respecting greatly
- maleSperm-producing sex
- siblingsFellow offspring
- relativeConnected by blood
- birth orderSequence among siblings
sibling rivalry · sibling bond · protector · protective instinct · family member · Cain and Abel · inheritance · caretaker · kinship · seniority · role model · fraternal bonds · primogeniture · shared history · sibling dynamics · pecking order · family dynamics · bonding
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