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SECRET SOCIETY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
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 (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)
