('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]
(..) I fucked kids like that in the can. In the ass. Fucking break up my party. [ And the other so-called gods of our legends ] [ And as the elders of our time choose to remain blind ] You been away for six years. It is different now. I did my fucking time, Jimmy. (..)1990 Goodfellas