sociable
IPA: sˈoʊʃʌbʌɫ
noun
- A sociable person.
- (historical) A four-wheeled open carriage with seats facing each other.
- A bicycle or tricycle for two persons side by side.
- A couch with a curved S-shaped back.
- (US) An informal party or church meeting for purposes of socializing.
adjective
- (of a person) Tending to socialize or be social.
- Offering opportunities for conversation; characterized by much conversation.
- (archaic) Capable of being, or fit to be, united in one body or company; associable.
- (obsolete) No longer hostile; friendly.
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Examples of "sociable" in Sentences
- She is friendly and sociable.
- The Beluga is a highly sociable creature.
- I was tired and in no mood to be sociable.
- She is friendly but least sociable of the five.
- She is friendly but the least sociable of the five.
- The Nubian temperament is sociable, outgoing, and vocal.
- She was described as a "sociable and pretty young girl".
- He is, in everyday language, an uninhibited, sociable child.
- He shifted from reserved and timid to sociable and rebellious.
- Cook is charismatic and sociable, but boisterous and not afraid of authority.
- Young children with imaginary friends are often described as sociable, imaginative children who love stories and pretend play.
- It was not half so interesting as taking lunch to school and eating it in sociable rings on the playground, or in groups under the trees.
- "sociable" is safer, perhaps, than the tandem; but it is very heavy and awkward, and has a way of taking up the greater part of the road.
- After taking an early breakfast, we all got into a carriage called a sociable, which is very like a larger sort of American coaches and went to
- She said she preferred the term "sociable TV" to "social TV," urging marketers to start "creating an experience consumers want to engage with over a longer period of time."
- The 57-year-old married father of four, described as a sociable member of staff, set himself on fire in the car park of a site at Merignac, near Bordeaux, after arriving for a morning shift.
- [Page 203] ing of fire-arms, hauling of faggots, chatting and smoking in sociable groups: everybody had crept under the doubtful shelter of branches and tarpaulins; the whole army was back in its burrows.