society
pronunciation
How to pronounce society in British English:
UK [səˈsaɪəti]
How to pronounce society in American English:
US [səˈsaɪəti]
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- Noun:
- an extended social group having a distinctive cultural and economic organization
- a formal association of people with similar interests
- the state of being with someone
- the fashionable elite
Word Origin
- society (n.)
- 1530s, "companionship, friendly association with others," from Old French societe "company" (12c., Modern French société), from Latin societatem (nominative societas) "fellowship, association, alliance, union, community," from socius "companion" (see social (adj.)). Meaning "group, club" is from 1540s, originally of associations of persons for some specific purpose. Meaning "people bound by neighborhood and intercourse aware of living together in an ordered community" is from 1630s. Sense of "the more cultivated part of any community" first recorded 1823, hence "fashionable people and their doings." The Society Islands were named 1769 by Cook on his third Pacific voyage in honor of the Royal Society, which financed his travels across the world to observe the transit of Venus.
Synonym
Example
- 1. Society itself is indeed changing fast .
- 2. That is also what the cancer society recommends .
- 3. But the inventor had ambitious goals for the society .
- 4. Describes his findings in a letter to the royal society of london .
- 5. Our society blatantly values appearance over ability .