- 1. n. The relationship of men to one another when associated in any way; companionship; fellowship; company. Source: opted
- 2. n. Connection; participation; partnership. Source: opted
- 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. Source: opted
- 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. Source: opted
- 5. n. Specifically, the more cultivated portion of any community in its social relations and influences; those who mutually give receive formal entertainments. Source: opted
- 6. n. an extended social group having a distinctive cultural and economic organization Source: wordnet
- 7. n. a formal association of people with similar interests Source: wordnet
- 8. n. the state of being with someone Source: wordnet
- 9. n. the fashionable elite Source: wordnet
- 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. Source: webster
- 11. n:100 n. an extended social group having a distinctive cultural and economic organization n. the fashionable elite Source: ecdict
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