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SOCIETY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An extended social group having a distinctive cultural and economic organization
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("society" is a kind of...):
social group (people sharing some social relation)
Meronyms (parts of "society"):
sector (a social group that forms part of the society or the economy)
class; social class; socio-economic class; stratum (people having the same social, economic, or educational status)
Meronyms (members of "society"):
social organisation; social organization; social structure; social system; structure (the people in a society considered as a system organized by a characteristic pattern of relationships)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "society"):
civilisation; civilization (a society in an advanced state of social development (e.g., with complex legal and political and religious organizations))
civilisation; civilization; culture (a particular society at a particular time and place)
open society (a society that allows its members considerable freedom (as in a democracy))
tribal society (a society with the social organization of a tribe)
Derivation:
societal (relating to human society and its members)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A formal association of people with similar interests
Example:
men from the fraternal order will staff the soup kitchen today
Synonyms:
club; gild; guild; lodge; order; social club; society
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("society" is a kind of...):
association (a formal organization of people or groups of people)
Meronyms (members of "society"):
club member (someone who is a member of a club)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "society"):
service club (a club of professional or business people organized for their coordination and active in public services)
boat club; yacht club (club that promotes and supports yachting and boating)
turnverein (a club of tumblers or gymnasts)
sorority (a social club for female undergraduates)
slate club (a group of people who save money in a common fund for a specific purpose (usually distributed at Christmas))
rowing club (a club for rowers)
racket club (club for players of racket sports)
jockey club (a club to promote and regulate horse racing)
investors club (a club of small investors who buy and sell securities jointly)
hunt; hunt club (an association of huntsmen who hunt for sport)
golf club (a club of people to play golf)
glee club (a club organized to sing together)
frat; fraternity (a social club for male undergraduates)
country club (a suburban club for recreation and socializing)
chess club (a club of people to play chess)
chapter (a local branch of some fraternity or association)
bookclub (a club that people join in order to buy selected books at reduced prices)
athenaeum; atheneum (a literary or scientific association for the promotion of learning)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The fashionable elite
Synonyms:
beau monde; bon ton; high society; smart set; society
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("society" is a kind of...):
elite; elite group (a group or class of persons enjoying superior intellectual or social or economic status)
Meronyms (members of "society"):
Four Hundred (the exclusive social set of a city)
Sense 4
Meaning:
The state of being with someone
Example:
he enjoyed the society of his friends
Synonyms:
companionship; company; fellowship; society
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("society" is a kind of...):
friendly relationship; friendship (the state of being friends (or friendly))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "society"):
freemasonry (a natural or instinctive fellowship between people of similar interests)
Context examples:
Who was she that she should be too good for cabin table and cabin society? had been his demand.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Let my sister Lavinia and myself have our society.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
And the sleuth-hounds of the law, the paid fighting animals of society, with telephone, and telegraph, and special train, clung to his trail night and day.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Mr. Rochester has a right to enjoy the society of his guests.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Few women could think more of their personal appearance than he did, nor could the valet of any new made lord be more delighted with the place he held in society.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
Poor Charlotte! it was melancholy to leave her to such society!
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
It gives him a place of his own in society.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It’s a bad compliment to me that you can’t be contented with my society for so short a time.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
By the charming society whose leader lies in the Reichenbach Fall.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I'm just a rough sort of a fellow, an' I ain't never seen anything of society.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
