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society

noun
/səˈsaɪ.ə.ti/UK/səˈsaɪ.ə.ti/CA/səˈsɑe.ə.ti/

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.

  1. derived from *sekʷ-✻
  2. derived from *sokʷ-yo-✻
  3. derived from societas
  4. derived from societé
  5. borrowed from societé

Definitions

  1. A long-standing group of people sharing cultural aspects such as language, dress, norms…

    A long-standing group of people sharing cultural aspects such as language, dress, norms of behavior and artistic forms.

    • 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.

  2. A group of people who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest

    A group of people who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest; an association or organization.

    • It was then that they decided to found a society of didgeridoo-playing unicyclists.

  3. The sum total of all voluntary interrelations between individuals.

    • 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.
  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. Companionship or association with one's fellows

      Companionship or association with one's fellows; friendly or intimate intercourse.

      • 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.[…]

    2. The people of one’s country or community taken as a whole.

      • 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:[…].

    3. High society.

      • 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."

    4. A number of people joined by mutual consent to deliberate, determine and act toward a…

      A number of people joined by mutual consent to deliberate, determine and act toward a common goal.

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Derived

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 · +21 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at society. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at society. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at society

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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