- The relationship of men to one another when associated in
any way; companionship; fellowship; company. - Connection; participation; partnership. - 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. - 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. - Specifically, the more cultivated portion of any community
in its social relations and influences; those who mutually give receive
formal entertainments.
Meaning of 'society' (Princeton's WordNet)
1 . society
[ n]
Meaning (1): - the state of being with someone
Example in sentence:
he enjoyed the society of his friends;
he missed their company
Meaning (2): - a formal association of people with similar interests
Example in sentence:
he joined a golf club;
men from the fraternal order will staff the soup kitchen today;
Stateless society Stateless society is a society that lacks formal institutions of government.
State society State society is a society that possesses a formal apparatus of government.
Post-industrial society Post-industrial society is a society based on the production of services and information rather than material goods. This is a notion advocated by those who believe that the industrial order is passing.
Pre-industrial society Pre-industrial society is a broad classification of all modes of production that came before industrialism. The most common of these are hunting-
Herding society Herding society (also called “pastoral society”) is a society whose subsistence is based on domesticated animals.
Agricultural society Agricultural society is the society whose mode of production is based on agriculture (crop growing) primarily through the use of human and animal energy.
Postindustrial society Postindustrial society is a society whose economic system is engaged primarily in the processing and control of information.
Postmodern society Postmodern society is a technologically sophisticated society that is preoccupied with consumer goods and media images.
Agrarian society Agrarian society is the most technologically advanced form of preindustrial society. Members are engaged primarily in the