Social
['səʊʃ(ə)l] or ['soʃl]
Definition
(adj.) marked by friendly companionship with others; 'a social cup of coffee' .
(adj.) living together or enjoying life in communities or organized groups; 'a human being is a social animal'; 'mature social behavior' .
(adj.) tending to move or live together in groups or colonies of the same kind; 'ants are social insects' .
(adj.) composed of sociable people or formed for the purpose of sociability; 'a purely social club'; 'the church has a large social hall'; 'a social director' .
(adj.) relating to human society and its members; 'social institutions'; 'societal evolution'; 'societal forces'; 'social legislation' .
(adj.) relating to or belonging to or characteristic of high society; 'made fun of her being so social and high-toned'; 'a social gossip colum'; 'the society page' .
Inputed by Isabella--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Of or pertaining to society; relating to men living in society, or to the public as an aggregate body; as, social interest or concerns; social pleasure; social benefits; social happiness; social duties.
(a.) Ready or disposed to mix in friendly converse; companionable; sociable; as, a social person.
(a.) Consisting in union or mutual intercourse.
(a.) Naturally growing in groups or masses; -- said of many individual plants of the same species.
(a.) Living in communities consisting of males, females, and neuters, as do ants and most bees.
(a.) Forming compound groups or colonies by budding from basal processes or stolons; as, the social ascidians.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Civil, civic, of society.[2]. Companionable, SOCIABLE, neighborly, formed for society.[3]. Convivial, festive.
Typist: Owen
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Collective, political, gregarious,[See REBUKE_and_MORTIFY]
ANT:Individual, solitary, personal
Typist: Moira
Examples
- They were merry and social, but they each knew that a gap, never to be filled, had been made in their circle. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- It is a poor form of social service that would exhaust the resources of science and philanthropy to care for the former without making any special provision fo r the latter. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Social responsibility for the use of time and personal capacity is more generally recognized than it used to be. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- So that the progress of future inventions depends on the outcome of the great economic, industrial, and social battles which are now looming on the pathway of the future. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- We have applied this test to three general aims: Development according to nature, social efficiency, and culture or personal mental enrichment. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- These revolutions require a rare combination of personal audacity and social patience. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Edison has always had an amused admiration for Bergmann, and his social side is often made evident by his love of telling stories about those days of struggle. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The heralds of this gospel were acutely conscious of the evils of the social estate in which they found themselves. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- It probably did much to disorganize social life and prepare the way for the troubles that followed the accession of Commodus. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- A nation bent upon a policy of social invention would make its tools an incident. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- May's blush remained permanently vivid: it seemed to have a significance beyond that implied by the recognition of Madame Olenska's social bad faith. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Discovery, research, inquiry in new lines, inventions, finally came to be either the social fashion, or in some degree tolerable. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- In vain I endeavored to interest him in Afghanistan, in India, in social questions, in anything which might take his mind out of the groove. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- He was neither ostentatious nor luxurious, neither did he care about social position, not finally. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The first office of the social organ we call the school is to provide a simplified environment. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
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