society
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ-
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *sokʷéh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ṓy
Proto-Indo-European *sokʷh₂ṓy
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Indo-European *sokʷyós
Proto-Italic *sokjos
Latin sokios
Latin socius
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ts
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts
Proto-Italic *-tāts
Latin -tās
Latin societāslbor.
Old French societé
Middle French societébor.
English society
Borrowed from Middle French societé, from Old French societé, from Latin societās, societātem (“fellowship, association, alliance, union, community”), from socius (“associated, allied; partner, companion, ally”), from Proto-Indo-European *sokʷ-yo- (“companion”), from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ- (“to follow”). First attested in the 1530s.
Inflected forms:
form: societies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: soc.
pos: noun
tags: alternative
abbreviation
Senses:
gloss: A long-standing group of people sharing cultural aspects such as language, dress, norms of behavior and artistic forms.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: This society has been known for centuries for its colorful clothing and tight-knit family structure.
He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record.
gloss: A group of people who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest; an association or organization.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: It was then that they decided to found a society of didgeridoo-playing unicyclists.
At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.[…]In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.
The Stephenson Locomotive Society (North Western Area) and the Manchester Locomotive Society are co-operating in running a special corridor train, to be worked by an 0-6-0 locomotive of the former Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway, on Saturday, May 12, over a route which includes visits to four historic stations, ascent of the 1 in 27 Werneth Incline, and traversal of lines normally closed to passenger traffic.
gloss: The sum total of all voluntary interrelations between individuals.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: The gap between Western and Eastern societies seems to be narrowing.
Policing the relationship between government and business in a free society is difficult. Businesspeople have every right to lobby governments, and civil servants to take jobs in the private sector.
gloss: Companionship or association with one's fellows; friendly or intimate intercourse.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The society of friends is one of life's great joys.
This was Jo’s favorite refuge, and here she loved to retire with half a dozen russets and a nice book, to enjoy the quiet and the society of a pet rat who lived near by and didn’t mind her a particle.[…]
gloss: The people of one’s country or community taken as a whole.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Our global society develops in fits and starts.
If successful, Edison and Ford—in 1914—would move society away from the ever more expensive and then universally known killing hazards of gasoline cars:[…].
Libertarian paternalism is the view that, because the way options are presented to citizens affects what they choose, society should present options in a way that “nudges” our intuitive selves to make choices that are more consistent with what our more deliberative selves would have chosen if they were in control.
gloss: High society.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Smith was first introduced into society at the Duchess of Grand Fenwick's annual rose garden party.
"What a charming amusement for young people this is, Mr. Darcy! There is nothing like dancing after all. I consider it as one of the first refinements of polished society."
gloss: A number of people joined by mutual consent to deliberate, determine and act toward a common goal.
pos: noun
tags: countable
Derived words: acclimatisation society
altar society
antisociety
benefit society
big society
black society
bonfire society
book society
burial society
cafe society
classification society
collecting society
collection society
consociety
consumer society
cybersociety
e-society
extra-society
fission-fusion society
friendly society
historical society
honor society
house society
humane society
information society
infosociety
intersociety
knowledge society
ladies' aid society
landed society
learning society
megasociety
microsociety
multisociety
mutual society
nonsociety
parallel society
pay one's debt to society
pillar of society
protosociety
risk society
societal
societarian
society column
society columnist
society function
society garlic
society house
societyless
society pages
society verse
societywide
soldiers' aid society
soyciety
stakeholder society
subsociety
supersociety
technosociety
tract society
undersociety
we live in a society
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