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PRIVY COUNCIL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An advisory council to a ruler (especially to the British Crown)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("privy council" is a kind of...):
council (a body serving in an administrative capacity)
Domain region:
Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "privy council"):
divan; diwan (a Muslim council of state)