respect your elders
Defer to age
Respect your elders is a maxim urging deference to older people, rooted in the assumption that age confers wisdom and experience worth honoring.
The phrase often appears as parental instruction to children: Respect your elders and mind your manners.
It can sound old-fashioned or be invoked ironically when older people demand unearned deference.
- honorHigh regard, moral dignity
- reverenceProfound admiring respect
- deferenceYielding to another's judgment
- old ageAdvanced years of life
- golden yearsLater life stage
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- moral sayingsdo unto others, golden rule, do the right thing, honesty is the best policy, treat others fairly
- sayingssayings, saying, proverb, proverbs, adage
- agingaging process, aging body, biological age, aging workforce, aging parents
- momismsI told you so, no means no, back in my day, clean your room, do your homework
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