orange order

1. 1.

   a Protestant political organization in Northern Ireland

   SynonymsAssociation of Orangemen

   Broaderorganization

   Northern Ireland

Questions about orange order

What does orange order mean?

orange order means "a Protestant political organization in Northern Ireland".

What is another word for orange order?

Close synonyms include Association of Orangemen. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is orange order a common word?

orange order is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.