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gaonates

gaonates is the plural of gaonate.

Meaning of gaonate

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

Questions about gaonates

What is gaonates the plural of?
Gaonates is the plural of gaonate.

Words near gaonates in the dictionary

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

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