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Definition of Junta
1. Noun. A group of military officers who rule a country after seizing power.
Definition of Junta
1. n. A council; a convention; a tribunal; an assembly; esp., the grand council of state in Spain.
Definition of Junta
1. Noun. A council; a convention; a tribunal; an assembly; especially, the grand council of state in Spain. ¹
2. Noun. The ruling council of a military dictatorship. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Junta
1. a political or governmental council [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Junta
Literary usage of Junta
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke (1812)
"In matters that are decided by the junta, tlie president and ten members will
form a quorum, but in ¡«flairs of hi.iiii import to tlie government, ..."
2. History of the War in the Peninsula and in the South of France: From the by William Francis Patrick Napier (1862)
"But it is now time to revert to the operations of the "Central Supreme junta"
that it may be fully understood how the patriotism, the constancy, the lives, ..."
3. History of the War in the Peninsula and in the South of France: From the by William Francis Patrick Napier (1842)
"The local junta in that province, not content with asserting their own exclusive
authority, imagined that it was possible to maintain Valencia independent, ..."
4. El Salvador at War: An Oral History of Conflict from the 1979 Insurrection edited by Max G. Manwaring, Court Prisk (1995)
"Neither I nor the party wished for me to be a member of the junta. My character
and experience were suited for a democratic environment, not a military ..."
5. History of Mexico by Hubert Howe Bancroft, William Nemos, Thomas Savage, Joseph Joshua Peatfield (1888)
"The duty of this 1 The junta was to meet two days after the publication of the
... Among other duties of the junta were to constitute itself into several ..."
6. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"These officers became personal rivals, intrigued with the junta, and refused to
... The junta had allowed their two main armies to drift apart ; Blake, ..."
7. The Founding of Spanish California: The Northwestward Expansion of New Spain by Charles Edward Chapman (1916)
"They might also be members of the viceroy's council; three members of the audiencia
taking part in the junta of September 9, 1773, were also in the council; ..."
8. History of California by Theodore Henry Hittell (1898)
"A written declaration to this effect was issued as the voice of the junta on
April 2, 1846, and bore the signatures of all its members, twenty-nine in ..."
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