society
- an organized group of persons associated together for religious, benevolent, cultural, scientific, political, patriotic, or other purposes.
- a body of individuals living as members of a community; community.
- the body of human beings generally, associated or viewed as members of a community: the evolution of human society.
- a highly structured system of human organization for large-scale community living that normally furnishes protection, continuity, security, and a national identity for its members: American society.
- such a system characterized by its dominant economic class or form: middle-class society; industrial society.
- those with whom one has companionship.
- companionship; company: to enjoy the society of good friends.
- the social life of wealthy, prominent, or fashionable persons.
- the social class that comprises such persons.
- the condition of those living in companionship with others, or in a community, rather than in isolation.
- Biology. a closely integrated group of social organisms of the same species exhibiting division of labor.
- Ecclesiastical. ecclesiastical society.
- of, relating to, or characteristic of elegant society: a society photographer.
Origin of society
Synonyms for society
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Related Words for society
company, humanity, community, nation, culture, civilization, world, public, association, population, club, league, group, network, union, corporation, institute, circle, elite, commonwealthExamples from the Web for society
Contemporary Examples of society
“The institution of marraige [sic] is under attack in our society and it needs to be strengthened,” Bush wrote.
The sickness in her mind was a reflection of the sickness of her life, a sickness created by her family and her society.
Cover-Ups and Concern Trolls: Actually, It's About Ethics in Suicide JournalismArthur Chu
January 3, 2015
The brother of a girl who made her debut in New Orleans society was shaking his fists in excitement.
Your letter highlights so many of the harsh realities trans people face, specifically in regard to how society rejects us.
Society itself must be changed, right out from under our hopeless cases.
Historical Examples of society
He was acquainted with the women of society, and with the women who only wished to be in society.
MalboneThomas Wentworth Higginson
The first duty of law is to keep sound the society it serves.
A society that had escaped from fear would escape from their control.
The Conquest of FearBasil King
He needs no nation, or government, or society, or companions before him or behind him.
The Conquest of FearBasil King
How the devil would have laughed at the idea of a society for saving the world!
Weighed and WantingGeorge MacDonald
society
- the totality of social relationships among organized groups of human beings or animals
- a system of human organizations generating distinctive cultural patterns and institutions and usually providing protection, security, continuity, and a national identity for its members
- such a system with reference to its mode of social and economic organization or its dominant classmiddle-class society
- those with whom one has companionship
- an organized group of people associated for some specific purpose or on account of some common interesta learned society
- the privileged class of people in a community, esp as considered superior or fashionable
- (as modifier)a society woman
- the social life and intercourse of such peopleto enter society as a debutante
- companionship; the fact or state of being together with someone elseI enjoy her society
- ecology a small community of plants within a larger association
Word Origin for society
Word Origin and History for society
1530s, "companionship, friendly association with others," from Old French societe "company" (12c., Modern French société), from Latin societatem (nominative societas) "fellowship, association, alliance, union, community," from socius "companion" (see social (adj.)).
Meaning "group, club" is from 1540s, originally of associations of persons for some specific purpose. Meaning "people bound by neighborhood and intercourse aware of living together in an ordered community" is from 1630s. Sense of "the more cultivated part of any community" first recorded 1823, hence "fashionable people and their doings." The Society Islands were named 1769 by Cook on his third Pacific voyage in honor of the Royal Society, which financed his travels across the world to observe the transit of Venus.
Idioms and Phrases with society
society
see under mutual admiration society.