Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun society_of_jesus

1 sense of society of jesus

Sense 1
Society of Jesus, Jesuit order -- (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; it is strongly committed to education and scholarship)
       => order, monastic order -- (a group of person living under a religious rule; "the order of Saint Benedict")