STATES GENERAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does States General mean? 

• STATES GENERAL (noun)
  The noun STATES GENERAL has 1 sense:

1. assembly of the estates of an entire country especially the sovereign body of the Dutch republic from 16th to 18th centuries

  Familiarity information: STATES GENERAL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STATES GENERAL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Assembly of the estates of an entire country especially the sovereign body of the Dutch republic from 16th to 18th centuries

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("States General" is a kind of...):

assembly (a group of persons who are gathered together for a common purpose)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "States General"):

Estates General (assembly of the estates of all France; last meeting in 1789)