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Etymology

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Borrowed fromMiddle Frenchsocieté, fromOld Frenchsocieté, fromLatinsocietās, societātem(“fellowship, association, alliance, union, community”), fromsocius(“associated, allied; partner, companion, ally”), fromProto-Indo-European*sokʷ-yo-(“companion”), fromProto-Indo-European*sekʷ-(“to follow”). First attested in the 1530s.[1]

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society (countable anduncountable,pluralsocieties)

  1. (countable) Along-standing group of people sharingcultural aspects such as language, dress, norms of behavior and artistic forms.
    Thissociety has been known for centuries for its colorful clothing and tight-knit family structure.
  2. (countable) A group of people who meet from time to time to engage in a commoninterest; anassociation ororganization.
    It was then that they decided to found asociety of didgeridoo-playing unicyclists.
    • 1892,Walter Besant, chapter III, inThe Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.:Harper & Brothers, […],→OCLC:
      At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.[…]In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, orsociety, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.
    • 1956 April, “Notes and News: Rail Tour of "Old Manchester"”, inRailway Magazine, page273:
      The Stephenson LocomotiveSociety (North Western Area) and the Manchester LocomotiveSociety are co-operating in running a special corridor train, to be worked by an 0-6-0 locomotive of the former Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway, on Saturday, May 12, over a route which includes visits to four historic stations, ascent of the 1 in 27Werneth Incline, and traversal of lines normally closed to passenger traffic.
  3. (countable) The sum total of allvoluntaryinterrelations between individuals.
    The gap between Western and Easternsocieties seems to be narrowing.
    • 2013 August 10, Schumpeter, “Cronies and capitols”, inThe Economist, volume408, number8848:
      Policing the relationship between government and business in a freesociety is difficult. Businesspeople have every right to lobby governments, and civil servants to take jobs in the private sector.
  4. (uncountable) The people of one’s country or community taken as a whole.
    Our globalsociety develops in fits and starts.
    • 2006,Edwin Black, chapter 1, inInternal Combustion:
      If successful, Edison and Ford—in 1914—would movesociety away from the ever more expensive and then universally known killing hazards of gasoline cars: […].
    • 2012 January, Steven Sloman, “The Battle Between Intuition and Deliberation”, inAmerican Scientist, volume100, number 1, page74:
      Libertarian paternalism is the view that, because the way options are presented to citizens affects what they choose,society should present options in a way that “nudges” our intuitive selves to make choices that are more consistent with what our more deliberative selves would have chosen if they were in control.
  5. (uncountable)High society.
    Smith was first introduced intosociety at the Duchess of Grand Fenwick's annual rose garden party.
    • 1813,Jane Austen,Pride and Prejudice:
      "What a charming amusement for young people this is, Mr. Darcy! There is nothing like dancing after all. I consider it as one of the first refinements of polishedsociety."
  6. (countable, law) A number of people joined bymutualconsent todeliberate, determine and act toward a commongoal.

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Translations

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group of people sharing culture
group of persons who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest
people of one’s country or community as a whole
high society—seehigh society

References

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  1. ^Douglas Harper (2001–2025), “society”, inOnline Etymology Dictionary.

Further reading

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  • "society" in Raymond Williams,Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 291.
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