gesellschaft
an association of individuals for common goals, as for entertainment, intellectual, or cultural purposes or for business reasons.
Sociology. a society or group characterized chiefly by formal organization, impersonal relations, the absence of generally held or binding norms, and a detachment from traditional and sentimental concerns, and often tending to be rationalistic and secular in outlook.
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Origin of gesellschaft
1- Compare gemeinschaft.
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How to use gesellschaft in a sentence
Another society of note was the still existing and flourishing gesellschaft der Musikfreunde.
Frederick Chopin as a Man and Musician | Frederick Niecksgesellschaft (Berlin, 1906) and Religionsgeschichtlicher u. gesch.
Schindler somewhere censures the gesellschaft der Musikfreunde for its long delay in making Beethoven an honorary member.
The Life of Ludwig van Beethoven, Volume II (of 3) | Alexander Wheelock ThayerSo Pohl, who wrote a history of the gesellschaft, informed Thayer in a note.
The Life of Ludwig van Beethoven, Volume III (of 3) | Alexander Wheelock ThayerThe autograph is preserved by the gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna.
The Life of Ludwig van Beethoven, Volume III (of 3) | Alexander Wheelock Thayer
British Dictionary definitions for gesellschaft
/ (German ɡəˈzɛlʃaft) /
(often capital) a social group held together by practical concerns, formal and impersonal relationships, etc: Compare gemeinschaft
Origin of gesellschaft
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