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SECRET SOCIETY

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English dictionary: Word overview

SECRET SOCIETY (noun)
  The noun SECRET SOCIETY has 1 sense:

1. a society that conceals its activities from nonmembers

  Familiarity information: SECRET SOCIETY used as a noun is very rare.


English dictionary: Word details


SECRET SOCIETY (noun)


Sense 1secret society [BACK TO TOP]

Meaning:

A society that conceals its activities from nonmembers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("secret society" is a kind of...):

association (a formal organization of people or groups of people)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "secret society"):

Freemasonry; Masonry (Freemasons collectively)

National Volunteers Association; Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (a secret all-male organization begun in 1925 to foster nationalism in India's Hindus)

Instance hyponyms:

KKK; Klan; Ku Klux Klan (a secret society of white Southerners in the United States; was formed in the 19th century to resist the emancipation of slaves; used terrorist tactics to suppress Black people)


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