1. A judicial assembly or court in Anglo-Saxon England, typically presided over by a king or local official.
Usage: archaic; historical; also spelled 'gemot'

Examples

• The gemote convened to settle disputes between landowners.
• Anglo-Saxon kings used the gemote as a forum for dispensing justice.
• Local nobles gathered at the gemote to hear the king's decrees.
• The gemote served as both a legislative and judicial body in early medieval England.