Definitions for gemot

gemot ge·mot

Spelling: [guh-moht]
IPA: /gəˈmoʊt/

Gemot is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 59 anagrams from letters in gemot (egmot).

Definitions for gemot

noun

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

Origin of gemot

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

Examples for gemot

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Word Value for gemot
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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