eldest

IPA: ˈɛɫdʌst

(card games) (of a player) Receiving cards from the dealer first, before any other players.
(card games) (of a hand) Having higher, or superior cards.

Examples of "eldest" in Sentences

We have 2 boys, the eldest is circed, the youngest is not ..
Otto is what I called my eldest son who is in the imperial navy!
This time there are 2 kids and the eldest is old enough to know that Daddy's gone.
They are brothers; and the eldest is a baronet, has a good estate, a wife and three or four children.
Rose, the eldest, is in the lead and she realizes something is terribly wrong before she sees what's the matter.
Peter Wiggin, the eldest, is a cruel and sadistic boy with grandiose but entirely plausible ideas of ruling the world.
My eldest is a No. 1 hunter and fisherman, the two younger ones like hunting but not as much as they like to fish (which is fine with me).
Anonymous said ... took my teens school clothes shopping, find it hard to believe my eldest is going off to college and my youngest is starting 11th grade. wow I am feeling old!
Usually, the 2nd, 3rd and 5th sons are sprawled on our bed while watching cartoons on cable TV; the eldest is engrossed on highstreet 5 while the 4th son plays mafia wars on facebook.