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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
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.
– origin C16: from Fr. société, from L. societas, from socius ‘companion’.



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