gerontocracy

GRE

英 [,dʒerən'tɒkrəsɪ] 美[,dʒɛrən'tɑkrəsi]

释义

n. 老人政治；老人政府

词态变化

复数: gerontocracies;形容词: gerontocratic;

中文词源

gerontocracy 老人统治

geront-, 老人。-cracy, 统治，见democracy.

英文词源

gerontocracy (n.): "rule by old men," 1830, a Latinized compound of Greek stem of geron (genitive gerontos) "old man" (see gerontology) + kratia "rule" (see -cracy). Related: Gerontocratic.

双语例句

1. But in practice Geneva was a patrician gerontocracy, dominated by a few families.: 但日内瓦事实上是贵族的老龄政府，由一小部分家庭控制的。