'Society' definitions:
Definition of 'society'
From: WordNet
noun
An extended social group having a distinctive cultural and economic organization
noun
A formal association of people with similar interests; "he joined a golf club"; "they formed a small lunch society"; "men from the fraternal order will staff the soup kitchen today" [syn: club, social club, society, guild, gild, lodge, order]
noun
The state of being with someone; "he missed their company"; "he enjoyed the society of his friends" [syn: company, companionship, fellowship, society]
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Definition of 'Society'
From: GCIDE
- Society \So*ci"e*ty\, n.; pl. Societies. [L. societas, fr. socius a companion: cf. F. soci['e]t['e]. See Social.]
- 1. The relationship of men to one another when associated in any way; companionship; fellowship; company. "Her loved society." --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- There is society where none intrudes By the deep sea, and music in its roar. --Byron. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Connection; participation; partnership. [R.] [1913 Webster]
- The meanest of the people and such as have the least society with the acts and crimes of kings. --Jer. Taylor. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A number of persons associated for any temporary or permanent object; an association for mutual or joint usefulness, pleasure, or profit; a social union; a partnership; as, a missionary society. [1913 Webster]
- 4. The persons, collectively considered, who live in any region or at any period; any community of individuals who are united together by a common bond of nearness or intercourse; those who recognize each other as associates, friends, and acquaintances. [1913 Webster]
- 5. Specifically, the more cultivated portion of any community in its social relations and influences; those who mutually give receive formal entertainments. [1913 Webster]
- Society of Jesus. See Jesuit.
- Society verses [a translation of F. vers de soci['e]t['e]], the lightest kind of lyrical poetry; verses for the amusement of polite society. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'society'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- academy,
- acculturation,
- affiliation,
- alliance,
- ashram,
- assemblage,
- assembly,
- association,
- associational,
- axis,
- band,
- bash,
- beau monde,
- beautiful people,
- belt,
- best people,
- biff,
- bloc,
- body,
- body politic,
- bop,
- box,
- branch,
- brethren,
- brotherhood,
- buffet,
- Bund,
- bust,
- cafe society,
- camaraderie,
- carriage trade,
- caste,
- chop,
- church,
- churchgoers,
- circle,
- citizenry,
- civilization,
- clan,
- class,
- clout,
- club,
- coalition,
- coalitional,
- college,
- colony,
- combination,
- combine,
- common man,
- common market,
- commonwealth,
- communal,
- commune,
- communion,
- community,
- community at large,
- companionship,
- company,
- complex,
- confederacy,
- confederation,
- confraternity,
- confrerie,
- congregation,
- consociation,
- consortship,
- constituency,
- consumer cooperative,
- cooperation,
- cooperative,
- cooperative society,
- corps,
- council,
- country club,
- cream of society,
- credit union,
- cultural community,
- cultural drift,
- culture,
- culture area,
- culture center,
- culture complex,
- culture conflict,
- culture contact,
- culture pattern,
- culture trait,
- customs union,
- denomination,
- division,
- drawing room,
- dwellers,
- economic class,
- economic community,
- elite,
- endogamous group,
- estate,
- ethnic group,
- ethos,
- everybody,
- Everyman,
- everyman,
- everyone,
- everywoman,
- extended family,
- faction,
- family,
- fashionable society,
- federation,
- fellowship,
- flock,
- fold,
- folk,
- folks,
- folkways,
- fraternal order,
- fraternity,
- fraternization,
- free trade area,
- friendship,
- gang,
- general public,
- gens,
- gentry,
- good society,
- group,
- grouping,
- guild,
- habitancy,
- haut monde,
- high life,
- high society,
- in-crowd,
- inhabitants,
- institute,
- intercourse,
- jet set,
- jeunesse doree,
- John Doe,
- key trait,
- kinship group,
- laity,
- laymen,
- league,
- linguistic community,
- machine,
- mankind,
- masses,
- membership,
- men,
- minyan,
- mob,
- moiety,
- monde,
- mores,
- nation,
- nationality,
- nonclerics,
- nonordained persons,
- nuclear family,
- offshoot,
- order,
- organization,
- organizational,
- parish,
- parishioners,
- partaking,
- participation,
- partnership,
- party,
- paste,
- people,
- people at large,
- people in general,
- people of fashion,
- persons,
- persuasion,
- phratria,
- phratry,
- phyle,
- polite society,
- political machine,
- polity,
- populace,
- population,
- Public,
- public,
- punch,
- race,
- religious order,
- right people,
- ring,
- Rochdale cooperative,
- salon,
- schism,
- school,
- secret society,
- sect,
- sectarism,
- seculars,
- segment,
- settlement,
- sharing,
- sheep,
- sisterhood,
- slap,
- smack,
- smart set,
- smash,
- sociable,
- social,
- social class,
- social register,
- societe,
- sock,
- sodality,
- sorority,
- speech community,
- state,
- stock,
- strain,
- subcaste,
- system,
- the Four Hundred,
- the public,
- thwack,
- totem,
- trait,
- trait-complex,
- union,
- upper classes,
- upper crust,
- uppercut,
- Vanity Fair,
- variety,
- version,
- way of life,
- welt,
- whack,
- whole people,
- world,
- world of fashion,
- you and me
Words containing 'Society'
- Societies,
- Benefit society,
- Bible Society,
- Cooperative society,
- Debating society,
- Philharmonic Society,
- Proceedings of a society,
- Ribbon Society,
- Society Hill,
- Society of Jesus,
- Society verses,
- Temperance society,
- The Society of Jesus,
- Transaction of a society,
- building society,
- fabian society,
- friendly society,
- high society,
- honorary society,
- open society,
- pillar of society,
- royal society,
- secret society,
- society islands,
- society of friends,
- tammany society,
- tribal society,
- Corresponding member of a society,
- Society Hill, NJ,
- Society Hill, SC,
- Society of the Sacred Heart,
- hunting and gathering society,
- religious society of friends,
- International Society for Krishna Consciousness,
- Christian Endeavor Young People's Society of,
- royal society of london for improving natural knowledge,
- united society of believers in christ's second appearing