Synonyms for society
səˈsaɪ ɪ ti

Princeton's WordNet(2.50 / 4 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. society(noun)

   an extended social group having a distinctive cultural and economic organization

   Synonyms:
   bon ton, company, smart set, lodge, guild, social club, high society, order, beau monde, gild, fellowship, companionship, club

2. club, social club, society, guild, gild, lodge, order(noun)

   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"

   Synonyms:
   guild, auberge, company, night club, parliamentary law, social club, decree, clubhouse, rules of order, fellowship, parliamentary procedure, club, high society, golf club, hunting lodge, bon ton, hostel, monastic order, fiat, cabaret, beau monde, orderliness, ball club, lodge, purchase order, rescript, nightclub, inn, baseball club, edict, nine, hostelry, order of magnitude, indian lodge, gild, smart set, ordination, golf-club, nightspot, order, ordering, companionship

3. company, companionship, fellowship, society(noun)

   the state of being with someone

   "he missed their company"; "he enjoyed the society of his friends"

   Synonyms:
   social club, party, troupe, fellowship, beau monde, smart set, gild, companionship, club, family, ship's company, bon ton, high society, guild, caller, company, order, lodge

4. society, high society, beau monde, smart set, bon ton(noun)

   the fashionable elite

   Synonyms:
   bon ton, company, smart set, lodge, guild, social club, high society, order, beau monde, gild, fellowship, companionship, club

English Synonyms and Antonyms(3.50 / 8 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. society

   We speak of an alliance of nations, a club of pleasure-seekers, a community of Shakers, a company of soldiers or of friends, a confederacy, confederation, federation, or union of separate states under one general government, a partnership or company of business men, a conjunction of planets. The whole body of Freemasons constitute a fraternity; one of their local organizations is called a lodge. A corporation or company is formed for purposes of business; an association or society (tho also incorporated) is for learning, literature, benevolence, religion, etc. Compare ASSOCIATE; ACQUAINTANCE; FRIENDSHIP.

   Synonyms:
   alliance, association, club, community, companionship, company, confederacy, confederation, conjunction, connection, corporation, familiarity, federation, fellowship, fraternity, friendship, lodge, participation, partnership, union

   Antonyms:
   disintegration, independence, isolation, separation, solitude

   Preposition:
   An association of scholars for the advancement of knowledge; association with the good is ennobling.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms(4.20 / 5 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. society

   Synonyms:
   community, polity, association, collection, companionship, fellowship, connection, participation, company, sociality, communion, intercourse, sodality

   Antonyms:
   individuality, personality, segregation, separation, solitariness, missociality, privacy, dissociation, disconnection

Dictionary of English Synonymes(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate these synonyms:

1. society(n.)

   Synonyms:
   association, copartnership, partnership, fellowship, company, corporation, body, fraternity, sodality, brotherhood, social union

2. society(n.)

   Synonyms:
   the community, the public, the world

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words(1.00 / 1 vote)Rate these synonyms:

1. society(n)

   Synonyms:
   sodality, association, fraternity, club, confraternity, guild, verein (Ger.), companionship, association, fellowship, company

PPDB, the paraphrase database(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these paraphrases:

1. List of paraphrases for "society":

   corporation, company, société, social, community, gesellschaft, societies, sociedad, societal, maatschappij, sociedade, družba, association, league, public, firm, sabiedrība, sociã

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1. John Torbett:

   It ensures equity, it ensures that all people in society are equitable. It has no mention of history.

2. Rick Ross:

   The programs that they're involved in, the schools that they're involved with, are just getting cut -- and I've seen the effect that that has on the quality of assistance that they get to provide society.

3. Sheikh Sabah:

   You have foiled the desperate attempt and satanic attitudes of the plotters and perpetrators of this condemned crime to inflame divisions and stir sectarian tensions and divide the unity of the Kuwaiti society, the international community should exert all their effort to avert and take legal action to dry up [ terrorism ] from its waters so countries and nations live in peace and security.

4. Bob Knight:

   Did society change during the course of time ? No, I think that people changed there.

5. Ryszard Kapuściński:

   In a society of little economic development, universal inactivity accompanies universal poverty. You survive not by struggling against nature, or by increasing production, or by relentless labor; instead you survive by expending as little energy as possible, by striving constantly to achieve a state of immobility.

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