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STATES GENERAL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Assembly of the estates of an entire country especially the sovereign body of the Dutch republic from 16th to 18th centuries
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("States General" is a kind of...):
assembly (a group of persons who are gathered together for a common purpose)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "States General"):
Estates General (assembly of the estates of all France; last meeting in 1789)