Gerontocrat

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /dʒəˈɹɒntÉ™kɹat/

Origin

From - + crat + -, after gerontocracy.

Full definition of gerontocrat

Noun

1. A member of a gerontocracy; an aged leader, especially one clinging on to power or ruling only by virtue of age.
• 2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic 2011, p. 98: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.
• 2013-05-11, What a waste, India is run by gerontocrats and epigones: grey hairs and groomed heirs.