Society
[sə'saɪətɪ] or [sə'saɪəti]
Definition
(noun.) an extended social group having a distinctive cultural and economic organization.
(noun.) the fashionable elite.
Checker: Virgil--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The relationship of men to one another when associated in any way; companionship; fellowship; company.
(n.) Connection; participation; partnership.
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(n.) Specifically, the more cultivated portion of any community in its social relations and influences; those who mutually give receive formal entertainments.
Checked by Harlan
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Association, copartnership, partnership, fellowship, company, corporation, body, fraternity, sodality, brotherhood, social union.[2]. The community, the public, the world.
Inputed by Alan
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:community, {[pobiy]?}, association, collection, companionship, fellowship,connection, participation, company, sociality, communion, intercourse,sodality
ANT:Individuality, personality, segregation, separation, solitariness,missociality, privacy, dissociation, disconnection
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Examples
- Why should I mind saying I want to get into society? Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- In a still narrower sense the truth of the Preacher's declaration is apparent:-- In an address before the Anthropological Society of Washington in 1885, the late Prof. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- As for society, he was carried every other day into the hall where the boys dined, and there sociably flogged as a public warning and example. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- The early official history of the Royal Society (Sprat, 1667) says that this proposal hastened very much the adopt ion of a plan of organization. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Well, a taste for society's just another kind of hobby. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- We have before us the need of overcoming this separation in education if society is to be truly democratic. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- In order to answer this question, let us recollect what we have already established concerning the origin of government and political society. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- I am such a sufferer that I hardly dare hope to enjoy much of your society. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- In order that one may live worthily he must first live, and so with collective society. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- As for me, I am ready to be happy anywhere in her society. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- In every improved society, the farmer is generally nothing but a farmer; the manufacturer, nothing but a manufacturer. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Society provides a remedy for these three inconveniences. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Servants, labourers, and workmen of different kinds, make up the far greater part of every great political society. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- But conditions change whether statesmen wish them to or not; society must have new institutions to fit new wants, and all that rigid conservatism can do is to make the transitions difficult. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Offered by Fosco as an act of homage to the charming society. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- If that is the way human societies organize sovereignty, the sooner we face that fact the better. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Certainly, sir; and it has the advantage also of being in vogue amongst the less polished societies of the world. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Disputes arose as to which was invented first, and long controversies between scientific societies, most of which sided with the friends of Davy. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The second is the invention of money, which binds together all the relations between civilized societies. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Other societies of Europe were equally ambitious of calling him a member. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- You have heard, Walter, of the political societies that are hidden in every great city on the continent of Europe? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- So far, he resumed, you think the society like other societies. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- We must base our conception upon societies which actually exist, in order to have any assurance that our ideal is a practicable one. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- It was at some celebration of one of the Royal Societies at the Burlington House, Piccadilly. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- As numerous and civilized societies cannot subsist without government, so government is entirely useless without an exact obedience. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- There were present deputies from all the best provincial choral societies; genuine, barrel-shaped, native Labassecouriens. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Ellen Olenska especially: she came back to get away from the kind of life people lead in brilliant societies. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- As a matter of fact, a modern society is many societies more or less loosely connected. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- In those barbarous societies, as they are called, every man, it has already been observed, is a warrior. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- At first these agreements had to be made and sustained by secret societies. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Typist: Waldo