Definitions for junto

junto jun·to

Spelling: [juhn-toh]
IPA: /ˈdʒʌn toʊ/

Junto is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 37 anagrams from letters in junto (jnotu).

Definitions for junto

noun

  1. a self-appointed committee, especially with political aims; cabal.

Origin of junto

First recorded in 1635-45; alteration of junta

Examples for junto

junto: a body of men secretly united to gain some political end.

The explanation of course is the selfishness or corruption of the great Whig junto.

I do not quite like your absenting yourself from that good old club, the junto.

The designs of the junto, however, were concealed as carefully as possible.

Is there any man whose friendship you want, and which the junto, or any of them, can procure for you?

Franklin was never more eclectic than when founding the junto.

Where else was there so soon a society—a junto—devoted to learning?

The "junto" appears to have been copied in England, half a century after this period.

Many of the questions he propounded to the junto had a scientific bearing.

By this junto, which met privately at Drury-house, the plot was matured.

Word Value for junto
Scrable

12

Words with friends

16

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