1. a self-appointed committee, especially with political aims; cabal.
Origin
1635-45; alteration of
junta Examples from the web for junto
- Reading was a great pastime of the junto, but books were rare and expensive.
British Dictionary definitions for junto
noun (
pl)
-tos 1. a variant of junta (sense 2)
Contemporary definitions for junto
Word Origin and History for junto
n. 1640s, erroneous formation of junta on model of Spanish nouns ending in -o.