('chiefly Brit') You should respect 'your elders and betters'. [=people who are older and more important than you]
('formal') He was my 'elder' by 11 months. [=he was 11 months older than I was]
He was told to respect his 'elders'. [=people who were older than he was]
(..) they're not really my parents. They're my uncle and my aunt. They came to Senegal to get me when I was . They couldn't have children, so they went to see a brother who had a load of them. They took the elder. Me. My name is Bakary. That's my real name. But there were several Bakarys in the (..)2011 The Intouchables