secret society

noun

: any of various oath-bound societies often devoted to brotherhood, moral discipline, and mutual assistance

Examples of secret society in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The series wasn’t directly based on a Rice book but centered on her in-universe secret society that monitors supernatural beings and whose representatives (like Justin Kirk’s Raglan James) have shown up in IWTV and The Mayfair Witches. —Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 2 June 2026

This summer’s show is inspired by Italian Renaissance artist and inventor Leonardo Da Vinci and a mystery involving a secret society known as the 7 Pillars. —Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 May 2026

This choice entangles Iris with Geoff and his father, a kind of archivist for a shadowy secret society, and a hapless man. —John Warner, Chicago Tribune, 25 Apr. 2026

In the 1850s, California boasted chapters of the Knights of the Golden Circle, a proslavery secret society hoping to annex land that is now part of Mexico, Central America, South America, and the US and form a slaveholding empire that could rival the Union in both territory and population. —Horace D. Ballard, Artforum, 22 Apr. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1821, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for secret society

• contrariety
• impropriety
• inebriety
• notoriety
• antianxiety
• intersociety
• anxiety
• impiety
• propriety
• satiety
• sobriety
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