people in general, living together in communities

a particular community of people who share the same customs, laws, etc.

modern industrial societies

demand created by a consumer society

Can Britain ever be a classless society?

They were discussing the problems of Western society.

We live in a society that is obsessed with how people look.

These rights are necessary in a democratic society.

a group of people who join together for a particular purpose

the American Society of Newspaper Editors

I joined the local Genealogy Society.

the group of people in a country who are fashionable, rich and powerful

Their daughter married into high society.

He was a solitary man who avoided the society of others.

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