- an organized group of persons associated together for religious, benevolent, cultural, scientific, political, patriotic, or other purposes.
- a body of individuals living as members of a community; community.
- the body of human beings generally, associated or viewed as members of a community: the evolution of human society.
- a highly structured system of human organization for large-scale community living that normally furnishes protection, continuity, security, and a national identity for its members:American society.
- such a system characterized by its dominant economic class or form: middle-class society;industrial society.
- those with whom one has companionship.
- companionship; company: to enjoy the society of good friends.
- the social life of wealthy, prominent, or fashionable persons.
- the social class that comprises such persons.
- the condition of those living in companionship with others, or in a community, rather than in isolation.
- a closely integrated group of social organisms of the same species exhibiting division of labor.
- ecclesiastical society.
- of, relating to, or characteristic of elegant society: a society photographer.
- the totality of social relationships among organized groups of human beings or animals
- a system of human organizations generating distinctive cultural patterns and institutions and usually providing protection, security, continuity, and a national identity for its members
- such a system with reference to its mode of social and economic organization or its dominant class
- those with whom one has companionship
- an organized group of people associated for some specific purpose or on account of some common interest
- the privileged class of people in a community, esp as considered superior or fashionable
- (as modifier)
- the social life and intercourse of such people
- companionship; the fact or state of being together with someone else
- a small community of plants within a larger association
