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GERONTOCRACY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does gerontocracy mean?
• GERONTOCRACY (noun)
The noun GERONTOCRACY has 1 sense:
1. a political system governed by old men
Familiarity information: GERONTOCRACY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A political system governed by old men
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("gerontocracy" is a kind of...):
form of government; political system (the members of a social organization who are in power)
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