Synonyms for society
səˈsaɪ ɪ tiso·ci·ety

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.5 / 8 votes

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 AntonymsRate these synonyms:4.2 / 5 votes

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

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:2.5 / 4 votes

1. societynoun

   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, ordernoun

   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, societynoun

   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 tonnoun

   the fashionable elite

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

Matched Categories

1. • Association
   • Elite
   • Friendship
   • Social Group

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. societynoun

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

2. societynoun

   Synonyms:
   the community, the public, the world

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. societynoun

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

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

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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How to use society in a sentence?

1. Hernan Navarro:

   By letting him free there is the potential risk to society because he could continue harassing these children.

2. Supreme Electoral Council:

   Those targeted are responsible for serious human rights violations, including repression of civil society, supporting the fraudulent presidential and parliamentary elections and undermining democracy and the rule of law.

3. Agathon Rwasa:

   Burundians, the government, civil society, opposition should seat together and put in place acceptable conditions for a democratic election.

4. Walther Collection curator Brian Wallis:

   This is a way of cataloging a certain strata of society ... to divide society into those that are acceptable and those that are not.

5. E. B. White:

   Weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society -- things can look dark, then a break shows in the clouds, and all is changed.