SOCIETY OF JESUS as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • a Roman Catholic order founded by Saint Ignatius of Loyola in 1534 to defend Catholicism against the Reformation and to do missionary work among the heathen
   Synonym(s)
   • Jesuit order (what does Jesuit order mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) Society of Jesus is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • order (what does order mean?)
   • monastic order (what does monastic order mean?)