society

Meaning

Noun

• 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.
• 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.

Origin

• 1530s; borrowed from Middle French societé, from Old French societé, from Latin societas ("fellowship, association, alliance, union, community"), from socius, from Proto-Indo-European *sokʷ-yo- ("companion"), from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ- ("to follow").