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older brother
  1. 1 older brother, elder brother
  2. 2 brother (as older-brother figure in friendly and or work relationship)
  3. 3 young man, buddy, fella, laddie — usu. vocative
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Mastered counts as known everywhere (frontier, map, extension) but never appears in the quiz again. New wipes the review history for this item.

· examples

  • Jim studies as hard as his brother does.

    sense 1 · older brother

  • He got angry with his brother.

    sense 1 · older brother

  • My brother seems to enjoy himself at college.

    sense 1 · older brother

  • I hope your brother is better.

    sense 1 · older brother

  • What a marvelous person your brother is!

    sense 1 · older brother

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