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gerontocrats

gerontocrats is the plural of gerontocrat.

Meaning of gerontocrat

Noun

gerontocrat (plural gerontocrats)

  1. A member of a gerontocracy; an aged leader, especially one clinging on to power or ruling only by virtue of age.
    • In Poland, a so-called anti-Zionist urge proved that the Stalinist gerontocrats would stoop even to Hitlerite tactics to repress dissent and prolong their sterile and boring hold on power.2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic, published 2011, page 98

Questions about gerontocrats

What is gerontocrats the plural of?
Gerontocrats is the plural of gerontocrat.

Words near gerontocrats in the dictionary

  1. gerontocracy
  2. gerontocrat
  3. gerontocratic
  4. gerontocratical
  5. gerontocratically
  6. gerontocrats
  7. gerontogaeous
  8. gerontogene
  9. gerontogenes
  10. gerontogeous
  11. gerontolatry

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