gerontocracy
/ˌdʒɛɹənˈtɒkɹəsi/
gerontocracy noun: government by elders; government by elderly rulers.
Noun
gerontocracy (countable and uncountable, plural gerontocracies)
- Government by elders; government by elderly rulers.
- Near-synonyms: senilocracy, graocracy (archaic)
- It would come as no surprise to find that optimum science policy is apt to be developed neither by gerontocracy nor by juvenocracy but, like the community of scientists itself, by age-diversified meritocracy.1972, Harriet Zuckerman, Robert K. Merton, “Age, Aging, and Age Structure in Science”, in Matilda White Riley, Marilyn Johnson, Anne Foner, Aging and Society, volume 3 (A Sociology of Age...
- Synonyms:
- senilocracy, graocracy
- Antonyms:
- juvenocracy
gerontocracy meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Arabic and Malay
gerontocracy in Hindi
- gerontocracy
- वृद्धतंत्र vŕddhatantra
gerontocracy in Urdu
- بوڑھوں کی حکومت
gerontocracy in Arabic
- government by elders
- غَيْرُونْتُوقْرَاطِيَّة ḡayrūntūqrāṭiyya
gerontocracy in Malay
- government by elders
- gerontokrasi
Examples of gerontocracy in a sentence
- Young people who are close to writing off the Democratic Party as a dinosaur, as a gerontocracy of prudish abuelos who gave birth by immaculate conception, may be in for a pleasant surprise.2017 April 3, Dr A W Niloc, “Resistance Songs for Day 75 - Sex Appeal”, in Daily Kos:
- He [Koizumi] was what would pass for a political maverick among Japan's faceless gray gerontocracy.2018, Mikiso Hane, Modern Japan: A Historical Survey, 5th edition, Routledge, →ISBN:
Synonyms of gerontocracy
Antonyms
Forms of gerontocracy
| plural | gerontocracies |
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Origin of gerontocracy
From geronto- + -cracy, from Ancient Greek.
Questions about gerontocracy
- What does gerontocracy mean?
- Gerontocracy means government by elders; government by elderly rulers.
- What is gerontocracy in Hindi?
- Gerontocracy in Hindi is वृद्धतंत्र (vŕddhatantra). See Gerontocracy meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use gerontocracy in a sentence?
- Young people who are close to writing off the Democratic Party as a dinosaur, as a gerontocracy of prudish abuelos who gave birth by immaculate conception, may be in for a pleasant surprise.
- What part of speech is gerontocracy?
- Gerontocracy is a noun.
- How do you pronounce gerontocracy?
- Gerontocracy is pronounced /ˌdʒɛɹənˈtɒkɹəsi/.
- What is the plural of gerontocracy?
- The plural of gerontocracy is gerontocracies.
Words near gerontocracy in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: gerontocracy (page history and authors); वृद्धतंत्र (Hindi) (page history and authors); gerontocracy (Urdu Wiktionary) (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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