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Definition: Society |
SocietyNoun1. An extended social group having a distinctive cultural and economic organization. 2. A formal association of people with similar interests; "he joined a golf 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; "he missed their company"; "he enjoyed the society of his friends". 4. The fashionable elite. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "society" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Etymology: Society \So*ci"e*ty\, noun; plural Societies. [Latin societas, from socius a companion: compare to French soci['e]t['e]. See Social.]. (references) |
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Biology & Biotechnology | A localised climax community, occurring within an area controlled by a single or a few dominant species, which is characterised by a single subdominant species. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Society The upper ten thousand, or "the upper ten." When persons are in "society," they are on the visiting lists of the fashionable social leaders. The "society" of a district are the great panjandrums thereof. "All the society of the district were present at the prince's ball."- Newspaper paragraph, December, 1885. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
simple:SocietyAn article on this topic is also available in Simple English.
A society is a group of humans that form a semi-closed system, in which most interactions are with other people belonging to the group. A society is a network of relationships between people. A society is an interdependent community.
The name was historically applied to the community formed by all the nationals of a country - a questionable idea now thanks to globalization. Some, like Margaret Thatcher, deny they exist at all. Societies are the main subject of study of social sciences.
Also, some groups apply the title "society" to themselves, as the "American Society of Mathematics". This is most common in commerce, in which a partnership between investors to start a business is usually called a "society".
See evolution of societies, Information society, social capital
Sources
- Definition of Society (social)
- Learning Commons - What is Culture ? - Glossary Item - Society
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Society."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| SODEPAX | English | Committee on Society,Development and Peace of the World Council of Churches and the Pontifical Commission Justice and Pease | Religion & Philosophy |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: SocietySynonyms: beau monde (n), bon ton (n), club (n), companionship (n), company (n), fellowship (n), gild (n), guild (n), high society (n), lodge (n), order (n), smart set (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Commonalty | Noun: commonalty, democracy; obscurity; low condition, low life, low society, low company; bourgeoisie; mass of the people, mass of society; Brown Jones and Robinson; lower classes, humbler classes, humbler orders; vulgar herd, common herd; rank and file, hoc genus omne; the many, the general,the crowd, the people, the populace, the million, the masses, the mobility, the peasantry; king Mob; proletariat; fruges consumere nati, demos, hoi polloi, great unwashed; man in the street. |
Mob; rabble, rabble rout; chaff, rout, horde, canaille; scum of the people, residuum of the people, dregs of the people, dregs of society; foex populi; trash; profanum vulgus, ignobile vulgus; vermin, riffraff, ragtag and bobtail; small fry. | |
Beggar, gaberlunzie, muckworm, mudlark, sans culotte, raff, tatterdemalion, caitiff, ragamuffin, Pariah, outcast of society, tramp, vagabond, bezonian, panhandler, sundowner, chiffonnier, Cinderella, cinderwench, scrub, jade; gossoon. | |
Enemy | Public enemy, enemy to society. |
Fashion | Set the fashion, bring in the fashion; give a tone to society, cut a figure in society; keep one's carriage. |
Noun: fashion, style, ton, bon ton, society; good society, polite society; monde; drawing-room, civilized life, civilization, town, beau monde, high life, court; world; fashionable world, gay world; Vanity Fair; show; (ostentation). | |
Manners, breeding; (politeness); air, demeanor; (appearance); savoir faire; gentlemanliness, gentility, decorum, propriety, biens_ance; conventions of society; Mrs. Grundy; punctilio; form, formality; etiquette, point of etiquette; dress. | |
Adjective: fashionable; in fashion; Noun: a la mode, comme il faut; admitted in society, admissible in society; Noun: presentable; conventional; (customary); genteel; well-bred, well mannered, well behaved, well spoken; gentlemanlike, gentlemanly; ladylike; civil, polite; (courteous). | |
Good Man | Salt of the earth; one in ten thousand; one in a million; a gentleman and a scholar; pillar of society, pillar of the community, a man among men. |
Laity | Noun: laity, flock, fold, congregation, assembly, brethren, people; society. |
Mankind | People, persons, folk, public, society, world; community, community at large; general public; nation, nationality; state, realm; commonweal, commonwealth; republic, body politic; million. (commonalty); population. (inhabitant). |
Party | Society, association; institution; union; trades union; league, syndicate, alliance, Verein, Bund, Zollverein, combination; Turnverein; league offensive and defensive, alliance offensive and defensive; coalition; federation; confederation, confederacy; junto, cabal, camarilla, camorra, brigue; freemasonry; party spirit; (cooperation). |
Repute | Rank, standing, brevet rank, precedence, pas, station, place, status; position, position in society; order, degree, baccalaureate, locus standi, caste, condition. |
Sociality | Social circle, family circle; circle of acquaintance, coterie, society, company. social gathering, social reunion; assembly; (assemblage); barbecue, bee; corn-husking, corn-shucking; house raising, barn raising; husking, husking-bee; infare. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | Our society cannot condone men who take the law into their own hands (A Time to Kill; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman) Well, it means that you're ready to rejoin society. (The Shawshank Redemption; writing credit: Frank Darabont) But when you're an overweight child, in a society that demands perfection, your sense of right and wrong will always be terribly skewed (Austin Powers in Goldmember; writing credit: Mike Myers) Credit is a sacred trust, it's what our free society is founded on. Do you think they give a damn about their bills in Russia (Repo Man; writing credit: Alex Cox) Mr. Marshall, if butlers told all they knew, society would be a shambles (Irene; writing credit: Alice Duer Miller; James Montgomery) | |
Lyrics | Where the dogs of society howl (Goodbye Yellow Brick Road; performing artist: Elton John) Fear based society wrought by a morality of separation (Anarchy Through Capitolism; performing artist: Kottonmouth Kings) Was to be outside society. (Rock N Roll Nigger; performing artist: Patti Smith) She's high society (She's So High; performing artist: Tal Bachman) In the Audubon Society (Poisoning Pigeons In The Park; performing artist: Tom Lehrer) | |
Clever | We live in a society where pizza gets to your house before the police. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Bologna: An Ancient City for a New Society (1974) Reaction: A Portrait of a Society in Crisis (1973) Babette: The Return of the Secret Society (1968) The Secret Society (1965) Vagabundos no Society (1962) | |
Song Titles | Walking Away (performing artist: Information Society) What's On Your Mind (Pure Energy) (performing artist: Information Society) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Shows poster of artistically rendered landscape scene with woman standing in foreground holding a sword - white light shines down on woman with slogans: "Cancer Is Curable," "Enlist In The Women's Field Army," "American Society For The Control Of Cancer". Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |  | Poster shows an artistically rendered profile of woman with right arm holding up a sword with slogans: "Fight Cancer With Knowledge," "Enlist In The Women's Field Army," "American Society For The Control Of Cancer.". Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |
 | The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) and the Astronomical Society of the Pacific ... Credit: NASA. |  | A view of the Royal Society Range from Observation Hill. 78 10 S Latitude 162 40 E Longitude. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | Map of Antarctica - early Twentieth Century map from the National Geographic Society. Shows track of Admiral Richard Byrd's flight track to the South Pole. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Bathymetric map of the Gulf of Alaska by Harold Murray of the Coast and Geodetic Survey. The seamounts are named for C&GS hydrographers. In: "Submarine Mountains in the Gulf of Alaska" by Harold W. Murray of the C&GS. Published in Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, 1941, Vol 52, pp. 333-362. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
 | Dead Reckoning Lines in the Gulf of Alaska. Showing the systematic planning of tracklines year by year from 1925 to 1939 by the Coast and Geodetic Survey. In: "Submarine Mountains in the Gulf of Alaska" by Harold W. Murray of the C&GS. Published in Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, 1941, Vol 52, pp. 333-362. Offprint call number: 526.98 M98. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | International headquarters for the Soil and Water Conservation Society in Ankeny, Iowa. Grounds include pond, prairie grasses, shrubs and trees, terraces, wildlife habitat and other conservation practices. Credit: Lynn Betts. |
 | Native Plant Society on a field trip with a BLM employee at Steens Mountain. Credit: Mark Armstrong. |  | Black and white wash painting of White-fronted Geese by Walter A. Weber, an artist who was a staff illustrator for the National Park Service, and well known for his work with the National Geographic Society. (Deceased) Return to the Federal Duck Stamp Office Home Page. |
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| "Sunset over society" by James Stephen Windsor Commentary: "I was looking for a dodgy sunset effect and took this picture directly from the roof of my house when the sun glared over the houses on our estate. I was quite surprised myself with the result." | "Sonic the Balloon" by Victoria Clare Commentary: "Sonic the hedgehog balloon kissing a building society." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Alexander Hamilton | I think the first duty of society is justice. |
Euripides | Youth holds no society with grief. |
Henri Frederic Amiel | Society lives by faith, and develops by science. |
Publilius Syrus | Society in shipwreck is comfort to all. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | Society is a hospital of incurables. |
| The virtues of society are vices of the saint. | |
| Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal. | |
Theodore Parker | As society advances the standard of poverty rises. |
Thomas Carlyle | Society is founded upon cloth. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | And I think it is plain, that it is far different from a politic society. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Marbury v. Madison | 1803 | This theory is essentially attached to a written constitution, and is, consequently, to be considered, by this court, as one of the fundamental principles of our society. (reference) |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | They attack every principle of existing society. (reference) |
Winston S. Churchill | 1946 | When the designs of wicked men or the aggressive urge of mighty States dissolve over large areas the frame of civilized society, humble folk are confronted with difficulties with which they cannot cope. ("Iron Curtain" Speech) |
United Nations | 1948 | The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State. (reference) |
Brown v. Board of Education | 1954 | Compulsory school attendance laws and the great expenditures for education both demonstrate our recognition of the importance of education to our democratic society. (reference) |
John F. Kennedy | 1961 | If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. (reference) |
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. | 1963 | One hundred years later, the Negro is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. (Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1931) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | His rank in society I would alter if I could, which is saying a great deal I assure you, Emma |
Sylvie and Bruno Concluded | Carroll, Lewis | Look at the way Croquet is demoralizing Society. |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | As a final disposition, I contemplate depositing them with the Essex Historical Society. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | We live in a sad society. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | To this society all the rest of the people are slaves |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | Society recovers only a tenth part of the property then |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | She began to withdraw from society. (references) | |
From the Alzheimer Society of Canada. (references) | ||
AD puts a heavy economic burden on society. (references) | ||
Business | It is condemned in society, and legal and medical recourse is available. (references) | |
Chinese society continued to become more open and to diversify at a rapid pace. (references) | ||
The Citizenry Security Society (APROSEG) is a small but very active private institution. (references) | ||
Children | Palau | Child prostitution is neither accepted within society nor practiced. (references) |
Mongolia | In practice, however, society shuns the disabled and most cannot find jobs. (references) | |
Sweden | An NGO, Children's Rights in Society, offers counseling to troubled youngsters. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Taiwan | Print media represent the full spectrum of views within society. (references) |
Romania | Programs for integrating refugees into society are developing slowly. (references) | |
Cambodia | Most of the remainder is made up of ethnic Cham Muslims, who are well integrated into society. (references) | |
Discrimination | Kiribati | Society is fundamentally egalitarian and has no privileged class. (references) |
China | The concept of a largely homogeneous Chinese society pervades the thinking of the Han majority. (references) | |
India | The traditional caste system as well as differences of ethnicity, religion, and language deeply divide society. (references) | |
Economic History | Japan | Japanese society and its political system are stable. (references) |
Cuba (09/01) | Under Castro, Cuba became a highly militarized society. (references) | |
Chile | By 1973, Chilean society had split into two hostile camps. (references) | |
Human Rights | Venezuela | Most victims came from the poorest and least influential parts of society. (references) |
Bahrain | The society also sent representatives to attend the World Conference on Racism in Durban. (references) | |
Iran | It serves as the principal vehicle of the State to restrict freedom and reform in the society. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Peru | Many other factors also contribute to the marginalization of indigenous people in society. (references) |
Brunei | The 6 percent of the population that is composed of indigenous people long has been integrated into society, and enjoys the same rights as other citizens. (references) | |
Philippines | Although no specific laws discriminate against indigenous people, the remoteness of the areas that many inhabit and cultural bias prevent their full integration into society. (references) | |
Minorities | Albania | Their interests are represented by Society Prespa. (references) |
Cambodia | Ethnic Chinese citizens are well accepted in society. (references) | |
Haiti | Mulattos generally belong to the wealthiest classes of society. (references) | |
Political Economy | Liberia | Extortion is widespread in all levels of society. (references) |
Hong Kong | Hong Kong is a free society with legally protected rights. (references) | |
Mexico | Civil society activity is rapidly expanding throughout Mexico. (references) | |
Political Rights | Burkina Faso | Two members of civil society also have cabinet posts. (references) |
Zimbabwe | The bill was criticized widely by media and civil society groups and had not passed by year's end. (references) | |
Micronesia | Cultural factors in the male-dominated society have limited women's representation in government and politics. (references) | |
Trade | Slovak Rep | Advisory assistance and trading are also provided to strengthen an enterprise's ability to achieve sustainable economic and employment growth while competing in a free market society. (references) |
Jamaica | The Jamaica National Building Society (which predominantly specializes in home mortgages) is the only Jamaican financial institution with branches in the U.S. All Jamaican commercial banks have correspondent U.S. banking arrangements. (references) | |
Colombia | The importation of the following products has been specifically prohibited: dieldrin, aldrin, chlordane, endosulfan, heptachlor, lindane and any preparations containing these products; gasoline containing lead tetraethylene; and weapon-type toys (to reduce the influence of violence in the society). (references) | |
Travel | Hong Kong | Above all, it is a society that emphasizes hard work and success. (references) |
Korea | A business person should show great respect towards Korean society. (references) | |
Botswana | Conversation Gambits: Botswana is a rapidly urbanizing society with strong rural roots. (references) | |
Women | Comoros | Men have the dominant role in society. (references) |
Swaziland | Women occupy a subordinate role in society. (references) | |
Congo | Women are relegated to a secondary role in society. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Cuba | The demands of the economy and society take precedence over individual workers' preferences. (references) |
Albania | Albanian victims of trafficking often face significant stigmatization from their families and society. (references) | |
Pakistan | Other local NGO's, such as the Society for the Protection of the Rights of the Child, are working to eliminate child labor. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | REGALIA, n. Distinguishing insignia, jewels and costume of such ancient and honorable orders as Knights of Adam; Visionaries of Detectable Bosh; the Ancient Order of Modern Troglodytes; the League of Holy Humbug; the Golden Phalanx of Phalangers; the Genteel Society of Expurgated Hoodlums; the Mystic Alliances of Georgeous Regalians; Knights and Ladies of the Yellow Dog; the Oriental Order of Sons of the West; the Blatherhood of Insufferable Stuff; Warriors of the Long Bow; Guardians of the Great Horn Spoon; the Band of Brutes; the Impenitent Order of Wife-Beaters; the Sublime Legion of Flamboyant Conspicuants; Worshipers at the Electroplated Shrine; Shining Inaccessibles; Fee-Faw-Fummers of the inimitable Grip; Jannissaries of the Broad-Blown Peacock; Plumed Increscencies of the Magic Temple; the Grand Cabal of Able-Bodied Sedentarians; Associated Deities of the Butter Trade; the Garden of Galoots; the Affectionate Fraternity of Men Similarly Warted; the Flashing Astonishers; Ladies of Horror; Cooperative Association for Breaking into the Spotlight; Dukes of Eden; Disciples Militant of the Hidden Faith; Knights-Champions of the Domestic Dog; the Holy Gregarians; the Resolute Optimists; the Ancient Sodality of Inhospitable Hogs; Associated Sovereigns of Mendacity; Dukes-Guardian of the Mystic Cess-Pool; the Society for Prevention of Prevalence; Kings of Drink; Polite Federation of Gents-Consequential; the Mysterious Order of the Undecipherable Scroll; Uniformed Rank of Lousy Cats; Monarchs of Worth and Hunger; Sons of the South Star; Prelates of the Tub-and-Sword. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Bob Jones | Well, at one time the entire South was segregated. If you're going to say I'm a segregationist that because I grew up in a segregationist society, you're going to have to say that about everybody in the South. |
Dennis Miller | The balance between a free society and a safe society is a difficult one. |
Dick Cheney | Protest to protect. I mean, that's the strength of our democracy. People can take to the streets and agree, disagree, demonstrate. As long as they're peaceful, I think it's a sign of a healthy society. |
John Walsh | I've seen the worst of society and I've seen the best. When I was at Ground Zero I saw the horrible homicides that were committed there and the sadness, but I saw the best of America. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | That individuals should undertake to wage private war, independently of the authority of their country, can not be permitted in a well-ordered society. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | Distinctions in society will always exist under every just government. |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | We believe that all states which are accepted in the society of nations should have access on equal terms to the trade and the raw materials of the world. |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | I believe that we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam. |
Richard Nixon | 1969-1974 | Well, one of the strengths of our free society is that any American has a right to reach that conclusion and to advocate that point of view. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Families stand at the center of our society. |
George Bush | 1989-1993 | There are few clear areas in which we as a society must rise up united and express our intolerance. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Violent crime and the fear it provokes are crippling our society, limiting personal freedom and fraying the ties that bind us. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | A civil society demands from each of us good will and respect, fair dealing and forgiveness. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Society" is generally used as a noun (common) -- approximately 99.71% of the time. "Society" is used about 23,820 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (common) | 99.71% | 23,751 | 367 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.29% | 69 | 40,280 |
| Total | 100.00% | 23,820 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "society". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Hebron | N/A | Biblical | Society |
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| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Malaysia | Malaysia Building Society Berhad | Singapore | Singapura Building Society Limited |
| United Kingdom | Nationwide Building Society | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "society": accumulating society ♦ affiliated society ♦ affluent society ♦ agricultural society ♦ Alzheimer's Society ♦ American Cancer Society ♦ american Society of Mechanical Engineers ♦ be banned by society ♦ benefit society ♦ benevolent society ♦ Bible Society ♦ building society ♦ caring society ♦ centralised society ♦ centralized society ♦ charity society ♦ choral society ♦ Christian Endeavor Young People's Society of ♦ class of society ♦ class society ♦ computer Conservation Society ♦ consumer society ♦ cooperative society ♦ Corresponding member of a society ♦ cream of society ♦ cut a figure in society ♦ debating society ♦ digital Equipment Computer Users Society ♦ drop out from society ♦ drop out of society ♦ elite of society ♦ enemy to society ♦ ethnic society ♦ European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy ♦ European Survey of Information Society Projects and Actions ♦ fabian society ♦ familistic society ♦ form a society ♦ fraternal society ♦ free society ♦ friendly society ♦ Geographic and Land Information Society ♦ get a footing in society ♦ high society ♦ honorary society ♦ human society ♦ humane society ♦ hunting and gathering society ♦ ideal society ♦ IEEE Computer Society ♦ international Core War Society ♦ international Society for Krishna Consciousness ♦ internet Society ♦ loan society ♦ managerial society ♦ member of a society ♦ open society ♦ permissive society ♦ pest of society ♦ philharmonic Society ♦ pillar of society ♦ polite society ♦ primitive society ♦ proceedings of a society ♦ provident society ♦ regulations of the society ♦ Religious Society of Friends ♦ respectable society ♦ ribbon Society ♦ Royal Society ♦ Royal Society of London for Improving Natual Knowledge ♦ scheme of society ♦ scum of the society ♦ secret society ♦ service society ♦ society column ♦ Society for Computers and Law ♦ society gossip ♦ Society Hill ♦ society Islands ♦ society life ♦ society man ♦ society of friends ♦ society of jesus ♦ Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers ♦ society of the Sacred Heart ♦ society person ♦ society verses ♦ society weddings ♦ student society ♦ Tammany Society ♦ temperance society ♦ the dregs of the society ♦ the family is the unit of society ♦ the permissive society ♦ The Planetary Society ♦ the society of jesus ♦ Transaction of a society ♦ tribal society ♦ United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing ♦ waifs and strays of society. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "society": society-are, society-as-parent, society-breaking, society-centred, society-column, society-environment, society-filled, society-monarchy, society-mortgagee, society-organised, society-s, society-spring. | |
Ending with "society": building-society, design-and-society, design-society, high-society, sub-society. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "society"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | vereniging (academy, association, circle, club), samelewing, klub (club). (various references) | |
Albanian | shoqërim (accompaniment, attendance, concomitance, convoy, touch, tracking), shoqëri (association, companionship, company, comradeship, consortium, crowd, entourage, fellowship, gang, guild, life, tendance, world). (various references) | |
Arabic | مجتمع راق, مجتمع (community, folk), حفلة أنس وسمر, جمعية (assembly, association, club, consortium, institute, institution, meeting, organization), الجمعية (assembly, collectivity). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | светско общество (fashion), светски (earthbound, earthly, fashionable, fleshly, laic, lay, material, mundane, profane, secular, smart, social, temporal, terrene, terrestrial, unclerical, world, worldly), секта (denomination, persuasion, sect), компания (bunch, circle, companionship, company, crowd, lot, party, push, set, tribe, troop), група (assortment, band, bandwagon, batch, body, category, clan, cluster, cohort, crowd, gang, group, knot, party, series, set, squad, stirps, suite, troop), висшо общество (quality), орден (decoration, medal, order), общуване (association, communication, communion, companionship, connection, conversation, converse, fraternization, intercommunication, intercourse, touch), общество (community, company, life, public, sodality, world), дружество (association, company, fellowship, organization). (various references) | |
Chinese | 黨 (association, club, party), 社會 , 社会 (social, societal, Societies), 社 (group), 團 (circular, group, regiment, round). (various references) | |
Czech | spolek (association, club, guild, syndicate), spoleènost (association, community, companionship, company, corporation, incorporation, league, partnership, party, set, world), sdružení (association, clearing house, corporation, guild, syndicate, union), klub (club). (various references) | |
Danish | selskab (academy, circle, club, company). (various references) | |
Dutch | sociëteit (academy, circle, club), gemeenschap (community), club (club). (various references) | |
Esperanto | socio, societo, klubo (club). (various references) | |
Faeroese | samfelag, klubbi (club), felagsskapur (academy, circle, club, corporation, trade-union, union), felag (academy, association, circle, club, company, connection, league). (various references) | |
Farsi | معاشرت (Commerce), مجمع (Convent, Convention), نظام اجتماعی , حشرونشر, جمعیت (Army, Bike, Company, Crowd, Flock, Gang, Group, Habitancy, Heap, Herd, Mob, Party, People, Population, Press, Throng), جامعه , انسگان , انجمن (Assemblage, Assembly, Club, Community, Company, Congress, Convention, Convocation, Council, Group, Guild, Institute, Moot, Order), اجتماع (Assemblage, Assembly, Collection, Commonweal, Community, Crowd, Hurricane, Milieu, Muster, Turnout), اشتراک مساعی , شرکت (Bodycorporate, Cahoot, Corporation, Firm, Hand, Unity). (various references) | |
Finnish | seura (academy, assembly, circle, club, company, party). (various references) | |
French | société, club. (various references) | |
Frisian | klup (club), fennoatskip (academy, circle, club, company). (various references) |
