eldership🔊

The position of being elder or senior; seniority, precedence of birth, primogeniture.

{{rfv-sense|en}} (as a mock title of honour) The personality of an elderly person.

The office or position of elder in a church.

The collective body of (ecclesiastical) elders; a body or court of elders, a presbytery.

{{rfv-sense|en}} The smallest administrative division in Lithuania, equivalent to a ward. +