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SECRET SOCIETY

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A society that conceals its activities from nonmembersplay

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 (an 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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