junto

A group of men assembled for some common purpose; a club, or cabal.

Noun

  1. A group of men assembled for some common purpose; a club, or cabal.
    • The opinions of this junto were completely controlled by Nicholas Vedder, a patriarch of the village, and landlord of the inn, at the door of which he took his seat from morning to night, just moving sufficiently to …...
    • I was seized and shaken without ceremony, for several minutes, by a junto of very rough-looking individuals. - 1844, Edgar Allan Poe, The Premature Burial:

Origin

Erroneous adaptation of junta, by assimilation with Spanish nouns in -o.

Forms

juntos juntoes