Definitions
Organized community; social world
Word origin
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.
Used in a sentence
“This society has been known for centuries for its colorful clothing and tight-knit family structure.”
“He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record.”
“It was then that they decided to found a society of didgeridoo-playing unicyclists.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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