OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 11994

society

/səˈsaɪ.ə.ti/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
sociedad
A long-standing group of people sharing cultural aspects such as language, dress, norms of behavior and artistic forms.
He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record.
This society has been known for centuries for its colorful clothing and tight-knit family structure.
sociedad
A group of people who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest; an association or organization.
At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.[…]In former days every tavern of repute kept…
It was then that they decided to found a society of didgeridoo-playing unicyclists.
comunidad • sociedad
The people of one’s country or community taken as a whole.
If successful, Edison and Ford—in 1914—would move society away from the ever more expensive and then universally known killing hazards of gasoline cars:[…].
Our global society develops in fits and starts.
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