gerontocracy
英 [,dʒerən'tɒkrəsɪ]
美[,dʒɛrən'tɑkrəsi]
- 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.