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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 intrigue
Familiarity information: JUNTO used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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