secret society

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   a society that conceals its activities from nonmembers

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Questions about secret society

What does secret society mean?

secret society means "a society that conceals its activities from nonmembers".

Is secret society a common word?

secret society 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.