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Society   /səsˈaɪəti/   Listen
Society

noun
(pl. societies)
1.
An extended social group having a distinctive cultural and economic organization.
2.
A formal association of people with similar interests.  Synonyms: club, gild, guild, lodge, order, social club.  "They formed a small lunch society" , "Men from the fraternal order will staff the soup kitchen today"
3.
The state of being with someone.  Synonyms: companionship, company, fellowship.  "He enjoyed the society of his friends"
4.
The fashionable elite.  Synonyms: beau monde, bon ton, high society, smart set.



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"Society" Quotes from Famous Books



... Growth of Grilse and Salmon. By Mr Andrew Young, Invershin, Sutherlandshire. (Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Vol. XV. ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 53, No. 331, May, 1843 • Various
... English at this period, against such representations, shows the extreme favour in which they stood with all classes of society.[780] The enthusiasm was so general and boundless that it seems to the author indispensable to take the field and retort (for the question was keenly disputed) the arguments put forward to justify the performance ...
— A Literary History of the English People - From the Origins to the Renaissance • Jean Jules Jusserand
... have conspired against the life of his father, ascended the throne in 1461; notwithstanding his reign was disturbed by a series of wars, he found time to occupy himself with useful institutions, and founded that of the first society of printers in Paris; he also established the School of Medicine, and the Post Office. Superstitious and cruel, he first used iron cages as prisons, then instituted the prayer styled the Angelus. Although he increased ...
— How to Enjoy Paris in 1842 • F. Herve
... containing the tea; a vessel containing fresh water; a tea-bowl. It is not my purpose to describe the many interesting details of these "tea ceremonies." Suffice it to observe that they gave a great impetus to the manufacture of costly and elaborate china. The leaders of society, as we should term them, who took part in these ceremonies exercised a judicious and enlightened patronage of the ceramic art. They encouraged rising talent, and welcomed new developments. There can, ...
— The Empire of the East • H. B. Montgomery
... Oldfield, "The Aborigines of Victoria," Transactions of the Ethnological Society of London, N.S. ...
— The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) • Sir James George Frazer


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