social
IPA: sˈoʊʃʌɫ
noun
- A festive gathering to foster introductions.
- (Canadian Prairies) A dance held to raise money, often held for a couple to be married.
- (dated, Ireland) A dinner dance event, usually held annually by a company or sporting club.
- (Internet, informal, countable) A social media account.
- (Britain, colloquial, with definite article) Ellipsis of social security. [A system whereby the state either through general or specific taxation provides various benefits to help ensure the wellbeing of its citizens.]
- (US, colloquial) Ellipsis of social security number. [(US) A nine-digit number issued to citizens, permanent residents, and temporary (working) residents under section 205(c)(2) of the Social Security Act, codified as 42 U.S.C. § 405(c)(2). The number is issued to an individual by the Social Security Administration. Its primary purpose is to track individuals for taxation purposes. Abbreviated as SSN. In recent years the SSN has become a de facto national identification number.]
- (Canada) Ellipsis of social studies. [The study of history, geography, civics, sociology, economics, and other social-science subjects, especially in primary and secondary school.]
- (Internet, informal, uncountable) Ellipsis of social media. [(uncountable) Applications or websites allowing users to share content and communicate with one another via the Internet.]
adjective
- Being extroverted or outgoing.
- Of or relating to society.
- (Internet) Relating to social media or social networks.
- (rare) Relating to a nation's allies.
- (botany, zoology) Cooperating or growing in groups.
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Examples of "social" in Sentences
- Socialism and communism are similar but not the same.
- They are the core of the social community of the game.
- The urge for communication is instinctive in social man.
- Social customs are heavily influenced by clannish loyalties.
- This was for the general social betterment of the community.
- Social animals in an hierarchic community have a certain rank.
- The mascot of the social networking site Twitter is a carrier pigeon.
- The region's social structure, coexistence of the communities was broken.
- The Hall provided the community with a place to meet, organize, and socialize.
- Video recently overtook search and social networking as China's favored online activity.
- ˜social conditions™ that brought his views into conflict with a number of reformers, including the Fabian social radicals, Sidney and Beatrice Webb.
- ˜social minimum policy regime™ as a set of policies and institutions that serve to secure reasonable access to this social minimum for all members of the society.
- -- The investigation of social evils and of their proper remedies, and of the laws which govern man in his social relations, has received of late the name of _social science_.
- Condorcet moved from his first achievements in mathematics into public service, with the aim of applying to social and political affairs a scientific model that he termed a ˜social arithmetic.™
- This event will consist of workshops on building leadership skills, discussions on social issues, spaces to share personal passions and ideas for change, and a scope to transform a �social change idea� into a �social initiative�.
- I have followed the trajectory of US National Public Radio’s Bryant Park Project because they were experimenting with so many social media tools and ideas, and more than that, they seemed to have grokked the ’social’ in social media.
- And I am increasingly of the view that it’s not just that the CS code doesn’t properly account for social media, there’s actual a wider problem with regulating and allowing for what you might broadly call ’social movement’ politics generally.
- It is more difficult to say which extreme is worst, among _an equal number of individuals_; but probably the city; for in the country, vice is oftener solitary, and less frequently social; while in the city it is not only _social_ but also _solitary_.
- _transient offices_, or _occupations not related to social life_; using such titles only as indicate a rank or profession that is _for life_; and which has become a part of the man's _identity_, or which is distinctly allied to his _social conditions_.
- This approach stood in opposition to the more empiricist view dominant since Hume, Comte and Mill, that the moral or social sciences had relied on conceptual and methodological analogies with the natural sciences, from Newtonian and statistical mechanics, such as Condorcet's ˜social mathematics™ and also from biology, such as Saint-Simon's ˜social physiology™.
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