5 letter words starting with el

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  • ELAIN
  • ELAND
  • ELANS
  • ELATE
  • ELBOW
  • ELCHI
  • ELDER
  • ELDIN
  • ELECT
  • ELEET
  • ELEGY
  • ELEMI
  • ELFED
  • ELFIN
  • ELIAD
  • ELIDE
  • ELINT
  • ELITE
  • ELMEN
  • ELOGE
  • ELOGY
  • ELOIN
  • ELOPE
  • ELOPS
  • ELPEE
  • ELSIN
  • ELUDE
  • ELUTE
  • ELVAN
  • ELVEN
  • ELVER
  • ELVES

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Definition of elder

elder (noun)

  1. An older person or an older member, usually a leader, of some community.
  2. One who is older than another.
  3. One who lived at an earlier period; a predecessor.
  4. An officer of a church, sometimes having teaching responsibilities.
  5. A clergyman authorized to administer all the sacraments.
  6. One ordained to the lowest office in the Melchizedek priesthood.
  7. Male missionary.
  8. (often capitalized) Title for a male missionary; title for a general authority.
  9. A pagan or Heathen priest or priestess.

elder (verb)

  1. To admonish or reprove for improper conduct by the elders of the meeting.

elder (adjective)

  1. Of an object, concept, relationship, etc., having existed for a relatively long period of time.
  2. Having been used and thus no longer new or unused.
  3. Having existed or lived for the specified time.
  4. (heading) Of an earlier time.
  5. Tiresome after prolonged repetition.
  6. Said of subdued colors, particularly reds, pinks and oranges, as if they had faded over time.
  7. A grammatical intensifier, often used in describing something positive. (Mostly in idioms like good old, big old and little old, any old and some old.)
  8. Excessive, abundant.

elder (noun)

  1. A small tree, Sambucus nigra, having white flowers in a cluster, and edible purple berries
  2. Any of the other species of the genus Sambucus: small trees, shrubs or herbaceous perennials with red, purple, or white/yellow berries (some of which are poisonous).


Definition of elude

elude (verb)

  1. To evade, or escape from someone or something, especially by using cunning or skill
  2. To shake off a pursuer; to give someone the slip
  3. To escape understanding of; to be incomprehensible to

Definition of elven

elven (noun)

  1. A female elf, a fairy, nymph; (by extension) any elf.

elven (adjective)

  1. Belonging or relating to elves; elfin.

elven (noun)

  1. An elm.

Definition of elves

elves (noun)

  1. A luminous spirit presiding over nature and fertility and dwelling in the world of Álfheim (Elfland). Compare angel, nymph, fairy.
  2. Any from a race of mythical, supernatural beings resembling but seen as distinct from human beings. They are usually delicate-featured and skilled in magic or spellcrafting; sometimes depicted as clashing with dwarves, especially in modern fantasy literature.
  3. Any of the magical, typically forest-guarding races bearing some similarities to the Norse álfar (through Tolkien's Eldar).
  4. A very diminutive person; a dwarf.
  5. The bluefish (Pomatomus saltatrix).

elves (noun)

  1. An upper atmospheric optical phenomenon associated with thunderstorms, rapidly expanding disk-shaped regions of luminosity, lasting less than a thousandth of a second, which occur high above energetic cloud-to-ground lightning of positive or negative polarity