Usually means: Representative assembly in historic France.
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  1. States General, States General: Merriam-Webster
  2. States-General: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. States-General: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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  8. States-General: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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Definitions from Wiktionary (States General)

noun:  (historical) A consultative assembly in prerevolutionary France uniting representatives of the three estates of clergy, nobles, and commons.
noun:  (historical) A similar assembly in the Burgundian and Habsburg Netherlands.
noun:  (historical) An executive-legislative council in the Dutch Republic, consisting of delegates of the sovereign Dutch provinces, that functioned as a de facto confederal government and/or collective head of state.
noun:  The bicameral parliament of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

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