Usually means: Elders or senior members, typically.
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  2. Gerontes: Wiktionary
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  4. Gerontes: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  5. gerontes: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  6. Gerontes: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  7. gerontes: FreeDictionary.org
  8. Gerontes: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ noun:  (historical, Ancient Greece) magistrates in Sparta who, with the kings, constituted the Gerousia

Similar:
agonothetes, pentacosiomedimni, ephor, boule, ephoros, gymnasiarch, politeia, ephorus, epistates, zeugitae, more...

Opposite:
juveniles, young people, youth

Types:
centenarian, supercentenarian, millenarian, bicentenarian, quadragenarian, vicenarian, more...

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Similar:
agonothetes, pentacosiomedimni, ephor, boule, ephoros, gymnasiarch, politeia, ephorus, epistates, zeugitae, more...

Opposite:
juveniles, young people, youth

Types:
centenarian, supercentenarian, millenarian, bicentenarian, quadragenarian, vicenarian, more...



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