Society
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society/səˈsʌɪəti/
▶noun (pl. societies)
- 1 the aggregate of people living together in a more or less ordered community.
■ a particular community of people.
■ (also high society) people who are fashionable, wealthy, and influential, regarded as forming a distinct group.
- 2 a plant or animal community.
- 3 an organization or club formed for a particular purpose or activity.
- 4 the situation of being in the company of other people: she shunned the society of others.
– derivatives
societal adjective,
societally adverb.
societal adjective,
societally adverb.
– origin C16: from Fr. société, from L. societas, from socius ‘companion’.
'Society' also found in these Oxford entries:
academy
- anarchism
- anarchy
- anatomy
- antisocial
- aristocracy
- ASLEF
- assimilate
- autarky
- autocracy
- beat generation
- beau monde
- benefit society
- Benthamism
- Bircher
- bluestocking
- body politic
- book club
- Boxer
- building society
- by-law
- cafe society
- Camorra
- carpetbagger
- cash card
- caste
- celebutante
- chapter
- charter member
- chorale
- Christendom
- class
- classless
- class struggle
- closed
- come
- communalism
- community
- Companion of Literature
- congress
- consumerism
- corresponding member
- cream
- credit card
- cultural
- current account
- custom
- cyberpunk
- debut
- debutante
