Meaning of society | Babel Free

Definitions

1. society, social order
2. A long-standing group of people sharing cultural aspects such as language, dress, norms of behavior and artistic forms.
   countable
3. high society
4. A group of people who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest; an association or organization.
   countable
5. the attitude of taking an active part in events, especially in a social context. — activist, n.
6. community
7. The sum total of all voluntary interrelations between individuals.
   countable
8. an abnormal fear of people, especially in groups.
9. company, firm, corporation
10. The people of one’s country or community taken as a whole.
    uncountable
11. a dedication to aristocratie behavior.
12. association, partnership
13. High society.
    uncountable
14. the attitudes and actions of aristocrats.
15. A number of people joined by mutual consent to deliberate, determine and act toward a common goal.
    countable
16. a society or nation ruled by a person with absolute authority. — autocrat, n. — autocratie, adj.
17. In England. the aristocracy that gained its wealth and social posi-tion from the ownership of breweries.
18. a Utopian society in which all foods and other material needs will be prepared by chemical processes. — chemocrat, n.
19. an upper class based on wealth. Also chrysoaristocracy.
20. the area of political science concerned with citizenship.
21. a brotherhood, especially a group of men bound by a common goal or interest.

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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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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."”

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