ANCIEN REGIME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ancien regime mean? 

• ANCIEN REGIME (noun)
  The noun ANCIEN REGIME has 1 sense:

1. a political and social system that no longer governs (especially the system that existed in France before the French Revolution)

  Familiarity information: ANCIEN REGIME used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANCIEN REGIME (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)