elderate
/ˈɛldəɹeɪt/
elderate noun: the smallest administrative unit in Lithuania, equivalent to a ward.
Noun
elderate (plural elderates)
- The smallest administrative unit in Lithuania, equivalent to a ward.
- One of the major accomplishments of the Business Information Centre has been the involvement of Švenčionys people into the project on poverty and social exclusion reduction in Northern Ireland, stirring up life in the countryside and training of initiative people from all elderates who later have...2007, Rimantas Šlajus, “Business Growth in Švenčionys District Goes Hand in Hand with Cultural Traditions”, in Lietuvos ekonomika ir visuomenė — Lithuanian Economy and Society, VšĮ „Įvaizdžio...
- The centre of Birštonas elderate which consists of 46 villages is Birštonas individual-farm settlement. The territory of the elderate is 111 km².2007, “Birštonas Municipality Territory — the Perl^([sic]) of Nemunas Loops”, in Rimantas Šlajus, opere citato, page 354/2
- Synonyms:
- eldership
Examples of elderate in a sentence
- It is divided into 10 Apskritys (counties), 60 savivaldybés^([sic – meaning savivaldybės]) (municipalities) and more than 500 seniūnijos (elderates).2009, Chiara Guglielmetti, “Local Development in a European Union Perspective: Cohesion and Regional Policies in Central and Eastern...
- Municipalities are subdivided into elderates, some 546 in all.2010, Clive Carpenter, “Lithuania: Government”, in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland (World and its peoples. Europe; 8), New York...
- The national territory is divided into ten counties, which are in turn subdivided into 60 municipalities, comprising over 500 ‘elderates’, which manage small-scale local matters.2019, Raj S. Chari, John Hogan, Gary Murphy, Michele Crepaz, “Countries with laws in the first decade of the 2000s” (chapter 3), in...
Synonyms of elderate
Forms of elderate
| plural | elderates |
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Origin of elderate
From elder + -ate (forms nouns denoting rank or office, here the concrete charge of it), a calque of Lithuanian seniūnija.
Questions about elderate
- What does elderate mean?
- Elderate means the smallest administrative unit in Lithuania, equivalent to a ward.
- How do you use elderate in a sentence?
- It is divided into 10 Apskritys (counties), 60 savivaldybés^([sic – meaning savivaldybės]) (municipalities) and more than 500 seniūnijos (elderates).
- What part of speech is elderate?
- Elderate is a noun.
- How do you pronounce elderate?
- Elderate is pronounced /ˈɛldəɹeɪt/.
- What is the plural of elderate?
- The plural of elderate is elderates.
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