"gerontology" meaning in All languages combined

See gerontology on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-gerontology.wav [US] Forms: gerontologies [plural]
Rhymes: -ɒlədʒi Etymology: geronto- + -logy Etymology templates: {{affix|en|geronto-|-logy}} geronto- + -logy Head templates: {{en-noun|-|+}} gerontology (usually uncountable, plural gerontologies)
  1. The study of the elderly, and of the aging process itself. Tags: uncountable, usually Categories (topical): Gerontology
    Sense id: en-gerontology-en-noun-6xeyGcLP Disambiguation of Gerontology: 54 46
  2. The branch of science that deals with the problems of aged people. It is to be distinguished from geriatrics, which is the study of the diseases of the elderly. Gerontology covers the social, psychological and biological aspects of aging. Tags: uncountable, usually Categories (topical): Gerontology, Sciences Translations (branch of science): herontologiya (Azerbaijani), геронтология (gerontologija) (Bulgarian), gerontologia [feminine] (Catalan), 老人學 (Chinese Cantonese), 老人学 (lou⁵ jan⁴ hok⁶) (Chinese Cantonese), 老人學 (Chinese Mandarin), 老人学 (lǎorénxué) (Chinese Mandarin), gerontologie [feminine] (Czech), gerontologi (Danish), gerontologie [feminine] (Dutch), gerontologio (Esperanto), gerontologia (Finnish), gérontologie [feminine] (French), xerontoloxía [feminine] (Galician), Gerontologie [feminine] (German), Alternsforschung (German), γεροντολογία (gerontología) (Greek), gerontológia (Hungarian), gerontologio (Ido), gerontologia [feminine] (Italian), 老人学 (rōjingaku) (alt: ろうじんがく) (Japanese), 노인학 (noinhak) (alt: 老人學) (Korean), gerontologia [feminine] (Polish), gerontologia [feminine] (Portuguese), gerontologie [feminine] (Romanian), геронтоло́гия (gerontológija) [feminine] (Russian), gerontologija [feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), gerontológia [feminine] (Slovak), gerontología [feminine] (Spanish), gerontoleg (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-gerontology-en-noun-tK~P7ONc Disambiguation of Gerontology: 54 46 Disambiguation of Sciences: 33 67 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms prefixed with geronto-, English terms suffixed with -logy Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 7 93 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 13 87 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with geronto-: 32 68 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -logy: 20 80 Disambiguation of 'branch of science': 0 100
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: biogerontology, gerontological, gerontologist, psychogerontology, sociogerontology

Inflected forms

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.