a person who is older than you are, any of numerous shrubs or small trees of temperate and subtropical northern hemisphere having white flowers and berrylike fruit, One who is older than another or others; an elderly person, adjective_ Older; more aged, or existing longer, Born before another; prior in years; senior; earlier; older; ; -- opposed to younger, and now commonly applied to a son, daughter, child, brother, etc, Comparative of old; greater than another in age or seniority