Dictionary

gemot en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ɡɪˈmoʊt/ (General-American)
• /ɡɪˈməʊt/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Old English ġemōt (“meeting, council, moot, encounter”).

Meanings

1. (historical) A (legislative or judicial) assembly in Anglo-Saxon England.
   • Each division had a court subordinate to those that were superior, the highest in each shire being the shire-gemot, or folck-mote, […] 1895, Geoff Horton, The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints:
   • a.d. 978. — In this year was held the celebrated gemot at Calne in Wiltshire, when the floor gave way […] 1849, John Mitchell Kemble, The Saxons in England: A History:
2. (broadly, rare) Any assembly.
   • I have spoken to Veedron, a member of one of Trellisane's many gemots, or ruling councils. 1984, David Dvorkin, The Trellisane Confrontation:

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Relateds

witenagemot · moot