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gaonate

gaonate noun: the rank or office of Gaon.

Noun

gaonate (plural gaonates)

  1. (Judaism, historical) The rank or office of Gaon.
    • The interlocking relationships between the Geonate and the Exilarchate are perhaps nowhere more evident than in the role played by each institution in selecting or deposing the head of the other — what might be described as a primitive version of the system of checks and balances.1998, Robert Brody, The Geonim of Babylonia and the Shaping of Medieval Jewish Culture, page 77

Forms of gaonate

pluralgaonates
alternative formgeonate

Origin of gaonate

From Gaon + -ate (forming nouns denoting rank or office).

Questions about gaonate

What does gaonate mean?
Gaonate means the rank or office of Gaon.
What part of speech is gaonate?
Gaonate is a noun.
What is the plural of gaonate?
The plural of gaonate is gaonates.

Words near gaonate in the dictionary

  1. gaolyard
  2. gaolyards
  3. gaon
  4. Gaona
  5. Gaonas
  6. gaonate
  7. gaonates
  8. Gaongan
  9. Gaonic
  10. gaonim
  11. gaons

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