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JUNTO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does junto mean? 

JUNTO (noun)
  The noun JUNTO has 1 sense:

1. a clique (often secret) that seeks power usually through intrigueplay

  Familiarity information: JUNTO used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


JUNTO (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A clique (often secret) that seeks power usually through intrigue

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

cabal; camarilla; faction; junto

Hypernyms ("junto" is a kind of...):

camp; clique; coterie; ingroup; inner circle; pack (an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose)

Meronyms (members of "junto"):

cabalist (a member of a cabal)


 Context examples 


And from this time began an intrigue between his majesty and a junto of ministers, maliciously bent against me, which broke out in less than two months, and had like to have ended in my utter destruction.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)



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