Thesaurus: society

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1. n. The relationship of men to one another when associated in any way; companionship; fellowship; company.
2. n. Connection; participation; partnership.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. n. Specifically, the more cultivated portion of any community in its social relations and influences; those who mutually give receive formal entertainments.
6. n. an extended social group having a distinctive cultural and economic organization
7. n. a formal association of people with similar interests
8. n. the state of being with someone
9. n. the fashionable elite
10. 1. The relationship of men to one another when associated in any way; companionship; fellowship; company. "Her loved society." Milton. There is society where none intrudes By the deep sea, and music in its roar. Byron. 2. Connection; participation; partnership. [R.] The meanest of the people and such as have the least society with the acts and crimes of kings. Jer. Taylor. 3. 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. 4. 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. 5. Specifically, the more cultivated portion of any community in its social relations and influences; those who mutually give receive formal entertainments. Society of Jesus. See Jesuit. -- Society verses Etym: [a translation of F. vers de société], the lightest kind of lyrical poetry; verses for the amusement of polite society.
11. n:100 n. an extended social group having a distinctive cultural and economic organization n. the fashionable elite