society
IPA: sʌsˈaɪʌti
noun
- (countable) A long-standing group of people sharing cultural aspects such as language, dress, norms of behavior and artistic forms.
- (countable) A group of people who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest; an association or organization.
- (countable) The sum total of all voluntary interrelations between individuals.
- (uncountable) The people of one’s country or community taken as a whole.
- (uncountable) High society.
- (countable, law) A number of people joined by mutual consent to deliberate, determine and act toward a common goal.
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Examples of "society" in Sentences
- Is it the selfishness of society
- The elite of the Quebec society were members of the club.
- She is not overawed by the Australian society and culture.
- That is, the rank order of people in society is malleable.
- Tall people tend to gravitate to higher positions in society too.
- The York Nomad Society is the hooligan firm associated with the club.
- All are the elements of culture that strengthen the culture of the society.
- The secretary of each society and hobby club is invariably one of the boys.
- Howells describes the people of the society as being selfish and materialistic.
- Mukherjee has taken up pen for the cause of the backward people of the society.
- Is the singapore society rotting? quimbanda Peace is foundation that sustains the whole #society.
- I hope this succinctly explains the underlying differences between Indian society and Pakistani ’society’.
- Free society must fail and give way to a _class society_ -- a social system old as the world, universal as man. "
- This society, founded in natural appetites and instincts, and not in any positive institution, I shall call _natural society_.
- In fact _the most far-seeing conservatives_ to-day demand it, for "_control by society as a whole_" means, for the present, _control by society_ as it is.
- Regardless of religious, cultural or even political persuasions, every society actually has to have guidelines, traditions, beliefs, mores, values…..society does not sustain itself without them.
- The society of the _sexes_, which answers the purpose of propagation; and next, that more _general society_, which we have with men and with other animals, and which we may in some sort be said to have even with the inanimate world.
- Young people naturally and commendably seek the society of those of their own age; but, be careful in choosing your companions; and lay this down as a rule never to be departed from, that no youth, nor man, ought to be called your _friend_, who is addicted to _indecent talk_, or who is fond of the _society of prostitutes_.
- And having deduced 'that good of man which is private and particular, as far as seemeth fit,' he returns 'to that good of man which respects and beholds society,' which he terms DUTY, because the term of duty is more proper to a mind well framed and disposed towards others, as the term of VIRTUE is applied to a mind well formed and composed in itself; though neither can a man understand _virtue, without some relation to society_, nor _duty, without an inward disposition_.