society
Meanings
- A long-standing group of people sharing cultural aspects such as language, dress, norms of behavior and artistic forms.
- A group of people who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest; an association or organization.
- The sum total of all voluntary interrelations between individuals.
- Companionship or association with one's fellows; friendly or intimate intercourse.
- The people of one’s country or community taken as a whole.
- High society.
- A number of people joined by mutual consent to deliberate, determine and act toward a common goal.
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Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ- Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *sokʷéh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ṓy Proto-Indo-European *sokʷh₂ṓy Proto-Indo-European *-yós Proto-Indo-European *sokʷyós Proto-Italic *sokjos Latin sokios Latin socius Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Proto-Italic *-tāts Latin -tās Latin societāslbor. Old French societé Middle French societébor. English society Borrowed from Middle French societé, from Old French societé, from Latin societās, societātem (“fellowship, association, alliance, union, community”), from socius (“associated, allied; partner, companion, ally”), from Proto-Indo-European *sokʷ-yo- (“companion”), from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ- (“to follow”). First attested in the 1530s.