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FABIAN SOCIETY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Fabian Society mean?
• FABIAN SOCIETY (noun)
The noun FABIAN SOCIETY has 1 sense:
1. an association of British socialists who advocate gradual reforms within the law leading to democratic socialism
Familiarity information: FABIAN SOCIETY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An association of British socialists who advocate gradual reforms within the law leading to democratic socialism
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("Fabian Society" is a kind of...):
association (a formal organization of people or groups of people)
Meronyms (members of "Fabian Society"):
Fabian (a member of the Fabian Society in Britain)
First Baron Passfield; Sidney James Webb; Sidney Webb; Webb (English sociologist and economist and a central member of the Fabian Society (1859-1947))
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