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Society

noun

(pl. societies)

An extended social group having a distinctive cultural and economic organization.

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"

The state of being with someone. Synonyms: companionship, company, fellowship. "He enjoyed the society of his friends"

The fashionable elite. Synonyms: beau monde, bon ton, high society, smart set.

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"Society" Quotes from Famous Books

... speechless, Balder? Do you wait for your host to speak first? Nay, never stand on ceremony. He is an eccentric recluse, unused to the ways of society, while a man of the world like you has at his tongue's tip a score of phrases just suited to the occasion. Speak up, therefore, in your most genial tone, and tell the Doctor how glad you are to find him in such wonderful preservation! Put him at his ease by feigning that his position appears ...

— Idolatry - A Romance • Julian Hawthorne

... you are a great artist," and without letting him speak she went on, "and by your appearance I had taken you for a student! But you are not in the least like a student, nor in fact like a German either. I have often met Indian princes in society in London, and I think you are ...

— The Malady of the Century • Max Nordau

... frankness, is the one pioneer that recognizes the opportunity of the hour and is willing to walk in the new light. Candor is the sign of a noble mind. It is the pride of the true man, the charm of the noble woman, the defeat and mockery of the hypocrite, and the rarest virtue of society. ...

— The True Citizen, How To Become One • W. F. Markwick, D. D. and W. A. Smith, A. B.

... man must have that twofold opportunity if we are to avoid the growth of a class-conscious society ...

— The Fireside Chats of Franklin Delano Roosevelt • Franklin Delano Roosevelt

... domes of clipped foliage, there was exasperation in the fact that his new position gave him no glimpse of the people in the room. His hunger to see them became for the minute more insistent than that for food. They represented that human society from which he had waked one morning to find himself cut off, as a rock is cut off by seismic convulsion from the mainland of which it has formed a part. It was in a sort of effort to span the gulf separating him from his own past that he peered now into this room, whose inmates were ...

— The Wild Olive • Basil King

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