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geonate

geonate is the alternative form 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

Forms of geonate

pluralgeonates

Questions about geonate

What is geonate the alternative form of?
Geonate is the alternative form of gaonate.

Words near geonate in the dictionary

  1. geon
  2. geonarrative
  3. geonarratives
  4. geonastic
  5. geonasty
  6. geonate
  7. geonavigation
  8. geonegative
  9. geonet
  10. geonets
  11. geoneutrino

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Adapted from Wiktionary: geonate (page history and authors); gaonate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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