What does society mean?
Society means (countable) A long-standing group of people sharing cultural aspects such as language, dress, norms of behavior and artistic forms..
Checking saved dictionary data and trusted language sources. This will stop automatically if a source does not respond.
/səˈsaɪ.ə.ti/ · noun
(countable) 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.
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.
The society of friends is one of life's great joys.
Use society when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Society means (countable) A long-standing group of people sharing cultural aspects such as language, dress, norms of behavior and artistic forms..
Common synonyms include order, fellowship, club, companionship.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
This society has been known for centuries for its colorful clothing and tight-knit family structure.
FreeDictionaryAPI.com / Wiktionary · Original source · CC BY-SA 4.0
Dictionary data is provided by FreeDictionaryAPI.com and sourced from Wiktionary under its stated license.