oldest
/ˈoʊldəst/ noun A1- The oldest child in a family, or individual in a group. · My oldest always forgets to turn the living room lights off before bed.
Plural oldests
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de Saint-Méran’s oldest friends, and chamberlain to the Comte d’Artois, “that the Holy Alliance purpose removing him from thence?”
By her side I am Spanish, but the family of Morcerf is French, and, I have heard, one of the oldest of the south of France.”
“My name is Helen Stoner, and I am living with my stepfather, who is the last survivor of one of the oldest Saxon families in England, the Roylotts of Stoke Moran, on the western border of Surrey.”
MARILLA, walking home one late April evening from an Aid meeting, realized that the winter was over and gone with the thrill of delight that spring never fails to bring to the oldest and saddest as well as to the youngest and merriest.
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