Definitions for gemots

gemots ge·mot

Spelling: [guh-moht]
IPA: /gəˈmoʊt/

Gemots is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 115 anagrams from letters in gemots (egmost).

Definitions for gemots

noun

  1. (in Anglo-Saxon England) a legislative or judicial assembly.

Origin of gemots

Old English gemōt, equivalent to ge- collective prefix + mōt meeting; see moot1

Examples for gemots

The gemot met and decreed the restoration of the earl and the outlawry of many Normans.

During the sessions of the gemot, the brothers were accused of treason and slain in the house of Eadric, the Mercian earl.

Godwine and his son Harold were summoned to the gemot, but refused to appear without a security for a safe conduct.

If anyone failed to attend the gemot thrice after being summoned, he was to pay the king a fine for his disobedience.

Sigeferth and Morcar were slain in Eadric's house at the Oxford gemot.

The gemot is summoned to meet this day week—that is on the third of October—and we shall wait to hear what steps they take.

Some time during the first half of the year, a gemot was summoned to meet at Oxford, near the border of the Danelaw.

Word Value for gemots
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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