PRIVY COUNCIL

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

An advisory council to a ruler (especially to the British Crown)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("privy council" is a kind of...):

council (a body serving in an administrative capacity)

Domain region:

Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "privy council"):

divan; diwan (a Muslim council of state)

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