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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 Irelandplay

  Familiarity information: ORANGE ORDER used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


ORANGE ORDER (noun)


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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