societies

nounhumankind, people
nounorganization, institution
nounupper class of people

Synonyms for societies

noun humankind, people

Antonyms for societies

hate

Word Origin & History

1530s, "companionship, friendly association with others," from Old French societe "company" (12c., Modern French société), from Latin societatem (nominative societas) "fellowship, association, alliance, union, community," from socius "companion" (see social (adj.)).

Meaning "group, club" is from 1540s, originally of associations of persons for some specific purpose. Meaning "people bound by neighborhood and intercourse aware of living together in an ordered community" is from 1630s. Sense of "the more cultivated part of any community" first recorded 1823, hence "fashionable people and their doings." The Society Islands were named 1769 by Cook on his third Pacific voyage in honor of the Royal Society, which financed his travels across the world to observe the transit of Venus.

Example Sentences for societies

He belongs to all our societies, and just does what he pleases.

They have societies and clubs and unlimited tea-fights where all the guests are girls.

All societies have had their epochs of progress and of retrogression.

Will you admit that in all societies there must be a leader?

This argument does not apply to societies in a low state of civilisation.

Every one of them is provided for elsewhere, in schools, clubs, and societies.

These are traits that societies have in common with organic bodies.

Now, in Russia and China and India, our societies are organizing and growing.

Law is stable; the societies we are speaking of are progressive.

Democratic societies, founded, 75;condemned by Washington, 83-84.