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noun

Society n. (pl. societies)

1.

The relationship of men to one another when associated in any way; companionship; fellowship; company. "Her loved society." "There is society where none intrudes By the deep sea, and music in its roar."

2.

Connection; participation; partnership. (R.) "The meanest of the people and such as have the least society with the acts and crimes of kings."

3.

A number of persons associated for any temporary or permanent object; an association for mutual or joint usefulness, pleasure, or profit; a social union; a partnership; as, a missionary society.

4.

The persons, collectively considered, who live in any region or at any period; any community of individuals who are united together by a common bond of nearness or intercourse; those who recognize each other as associates, friends, and acquaintances.

5.

Specifically, the more cultivated portion of any community in its social relations and influences; those who mutually give receive formal entertainments.

Society of Jesus. See Jesuit.

Society verses, the lightest kind of lyrical poetry; verses for the amusement of polite society.

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Etymology of 'Society'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Society" Quotes from Famous Books

... after this the August Lady was eating and drinking at the table of His Majesty, and the King was enjoying her society greatly, and she said unto His Majesty, "Swear to me an oath by God, saying, I will hearken unto whatsoever the August Lady shall say unto me for her sake; let her say on." And he hearkened unto everything which she ...

— The Literature of the Ancient Egyptians • E. A. Wallis Budge

... liquor in the city, and they all enjoy a greater or less degree of prosperity. Very few liquor sellers, confining themselves to their legitimate business, fail in this city. The majority grow rich, and their children not unfrequently take their places in the fashionable society of the city. The liquors sold at these places are simply abominable. Whiskey commands the largest sale, and it is in the majority of instances a vile compound. About three years ago, the New York World published a list of the principal bar-rooms ...

— Lights and Shadows of New York Life - or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City • James D. McCabe

... hour of day or night he chose to stagger in; but the large family combined efforts to prevent the contretemps of a meeting between him and Ruth. Their promise to her mother was too sacred for trifling, and they loved the girl too well to risk being deprived of her society. Destiny, or chance, was too strong for them. It was on a bright, sunlit day, when Ruth was in an animated discussion with her cousin Roger upon the merits of Vassar College, recently thrown open to young women, which he declared was only a place where they ...

— Idle Hour Stories • Eugenia Dunlap Potts

... for he took keen pleasure in the society of Susanna, and was fond of the quaint old house where his kinsman lived. He rose and went into the inner room, where Hannah received him with ...

— French and English - A Story of the Struggle in America • Evelyn Everett-Green

... struggle as the dominant element in English government. But in all the other great states of Europe the wars of religion had left only the name of freedom. Government tended to a pure despotism. Privilege was supreme in religion, in politics, in society. Society itself rested on a rigid division of classes from one another, which refused to the people at large any equal rights of ...

— History of the English People, Volume VIII (of 8) - Modern England, 1760-1815 • John Richard Green

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