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ANCIEN REGIME
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A political and social system that no longer governs (especially the system that existed in France before the French Revolution)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("ancien regime" is a kind of...):
authorities; government; regime (the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit)
Domain region:
France; French Republic (a republic in western Europe; the largest country wholly in Europe)