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gerontolatry

gerontolatry noun: worship of old people.

Noun

gerontolatry (uncountable)

  1. Worship of old people.
    • Gerontolatry, an inevitable development of the many movements afoot to make the world safe for the old folks, has had a fine fling this goodwill season, and old folks' engagement-books, to say nothing of the old folks, have been full to bursting.1957, Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Sir Francis Cowley Burnand, Sir Owen Seaman, Punch, Volume 232, page 49
    • Because Russian literature is an integral part of European literature, it shares the latter's prejudices and displays a full spectrum of those commonplaces involving old age that are so familiar in the West; certainly there is none of the gerontolatry that is a notable feature of Far Eastern...1989, Perceptions of Aging in Literature: A Cross-cultural Study, page 87

Origin of gerontolatry

From geronto- + -latry.

Questions about gerontolatry

What does gerontolatry mean?
Gerontolatry means worship of old people.
What part of speech is gerontolatry?
Gerontolatry is a noun.

Words near gerontolatry in the dictionary

  1. gerontocrats
  2. gerontogaeous
  3. gerontogene
  4. gerontogenes
  5. gerontogeous
  6. gerontolatry
  7. gerontologic
  8. gerontological
  9. gerontologically
  10. gerontologies
  11. gerontologist

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