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ORANGE ORDER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Orange Order mean?
• ORANGE ORDER (noun)
The noun ORANGE ORDER has 1 sense:
1. a Protestant political organization in Northern Ireland
Familiarity information: ORANGE ORDER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A Protestant political organization in Northern Ireland
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
Association of Orangemen; Orange Order
Hypernyms ("Orange Order" is a kind of...):
organisation; organization (a group of people who work together)
Meronyms (members of "Orange Order"):
Orangeman (a member of a society founded in Ireland in 1795 to uphold Protestantism and the British sovereign)
Domain region:
Northern Ireland (a division of the United Kingdom located on the northern part of the island of Ireland)
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