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单词 society
释义
societyso‧ci‧e‧ty /səˈsaɪəti/ ●●● S1 W1 noun (plural societies) Entry menu
MENU FOR societysociety1 people in general2 a particular group3 club4 upper class5 being with people6 polite society
Word Origin
WORD ORIGINsociety
Origin:
1500-1600 French société, from Latin societas, from socius; ➔ SOCIAL1
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • Children are the most vulnerable members of society.
  • He joined the university film society as a way of making friends.
  • Islamic society
  • Prisons are meant to protect society from criminals.
  • recent changes in American society
  • The judge described Smith as 'a danger to society'.
  • the National Society of Public Accountants
  • the president of the American Historical Society
  • the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
  • We live in a society that values hard work.
  • We want our students to become useful and responsible members of society.
  • We will soon be unable to enjoy the society of our dearest friends.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • Give him an unknown society, any society, and he wanted in.
  • Having already displayed a contempt for civilized society, he or she can not be considered a part of it.
  • His death has triggered questions over whether a larger section of society than initially thought may be vulnerable to the disease.
  • In Protestant society such conflicts certainly exist, but they take place in private.
  • Nevertheless we are committed to a meritocratic society.
  • They will continue to promote the integration of migrant workers in the societies in which they are lawfully residing.
Thesaurus
THESAURUS
a group of people, companies, or countries, which is set up for a particular purpose: · Greenpeace is an international organization that protects the environment.· the World Health Organization
a large important organization such as a bank, church, or university: · The University is an important academic institution.· financial institutions such as banks
an organization for people in a particular profession, sport, or activity, which officially represents its members – often used in names: · I met a representative of the National Association of Teachers.· the Football Association
an organization of people with the same political aims which you can vote for in elections: · Which political party do you support?· He voted for the Republican Party’s candidate.
an important group of people who make the rules and advise people about what should be allowed: · the sport’s governing body· The government has set up an advisory body.
an organization for people who share an interest, for example a sport: · We belong to a tennis club.· I joined the university film society.
an organization formed by workers in order to protect their rights: · The union ordered its members out on strike.
an organization which collects money to help people who are poor, sick etc and does not make any profit for itself: · She has raised a lot of money for local charities.
British English disapproving an organization set up by the government, which has official power but whose members have not been elected: · the amount of money that is wasted on government quangos
Longman Language Activatoran organization for people who have the same interests or aims
a group of people who meet regularly to do something that they are all interested in, for example a particular activity or sport: · They've set up a chess club at school.· the North Manchester Judo Clubjoin a club: · Why don't you join your local swimming club if you're keen on swimming?belong to a club (=be a member of a club): · They both belong to the local tennis club.
an organization for people who have the same interest or aim, especially a large official organization: · He joined the university film society as a way of making friends.· the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds· the president of the American Historical Society
an important organization for people in a particular profession, activity, sport etc, which officially represents its members and has the power to make rules: · The new health care proposals have been criticized by the British Medical Association.· The National Basketball Association negotiates TV rights for important games.association of: · the National Association of Head Teachers
an organization formed by workers to protect their rights and improve their pay and working conditions: · The largest teachers' union supports the education reforms.union of: · the National Union of Mineworkers.trade union British: labor union American: · The President could not rely on the support of the labor unions.join a union: · Some workers refused to join the union.
an organization consisting of people, countries, or groups that have joined together because they have the same aim: · The League of Nations was formed to promote international peace and security.· Morocco is a member of the Arab League.· Leaders of the Football League met to discuss the problems of violence at football games.
a group of separate organizations or clubs which have joined together to help and support each other: · He is now chairman of the British Olympic Federation.· Her case was supported by the Chicago Teachers Federation.federation of: · the National Federation of Master Builders
people in general
people in general: · People are getting very worried about rising crime.· I don't want people to feel sorry for me.most/some people: · Most people hate writing essays, but I quite like it.
all people - use this to make general statements about how people behave, what people like etc: · Don't you like ice-cream? I thought everyone liked it!· Everybody has the right to a good education.· Everyone knows that smoking is bad for you.
American spoken people: · Folks around here have been pretty angry about the governor's actions.most/some folks: · Some folks think the schools are better now than they were twenty years ago.
all the people in the world, considered as one group: · Pollution is threatening the future of the human race.the entire/whole human race: · The entire human race could be wiped out by nuclear war.a member of the human race: · Until then, no member of the human race had ever been able to make a map of the whole world.
people in general - used especially when talking about their history and development, or how something affects their continued existence: · The Americans exploded the first nuclear weapon in the history of mankind.· Travelling into space was a great advance for mankind.· In the interests of humankind we must stop destroying our planet.
people in general - use this when you are comparing humans with other living things. Some people do not use this word because it can seem offensive to women: · Jericho is the oldest continuously inhabited city known to man.· The grandeur of the mountains is a constant reminder of man's insignificance.· The Dutch reclamation of their land is a classic case of man's struggle against nature.
people in general - use this especially when you are talking about people's rights to be treated like all other humans and not suffer cruelty, hunger etc: · 30% of humanity live in conditions of terrible poverty.a crime against humanity: · The General was accused of committing crimes against humanity.
ordinary people who do not belong to the government, the police etc, and do not have any special rights: · The castle is open to the public during the summer.· The public ought to know how the money from taxes is being spent.a member of the public: · Some of these politicians never meet ordinary members of the public.the general public: · Tickets will become available to the general public in June.
people in general - use this to talk about people as an organized group with a system of laws and accepted behaviour: · Islamic society· The judge described Smith as 'a danger to society'.member of society: · We want our students to become useful and responsible members of society.
: young/old/rich/country/city etc folk people of a particular type or from a particular area, considered together as a group: · The young folk need to have a place where they can go in the evenings.· Stella's ambition is to get a job working with old folk.· His parents were hard-working country folk.
use this about conditions, problems, and changes that affect all the people in society: · Rising unemployment led to even more social problems.· social changes that brought women even greater freedom
WORD SETS
academician, nounacademy, nounAMA, Asian Development Bank, nounAssociates, nounAssociation for Payment Clearing Services, nounAudit Bureau of Circulation, nounbadge, nounBaltic Exchange, nounBBA, nounblackball, verbBlue Shield, nounbook club, nounBoy Scout, nounbranch, nounbureau, nounCBOT, chairperson, nounchamber of commerce, nounchamber of trade, nounCISCO, nounCompanies House, nounco-operative society, coopt, verbcorp., corporate, adjectivecouncil, nouncub, nounCub Scout, noundepartment, noundiscount brokerage, dropout, nounEasdaq, nounechelon, nounemergency services, nounEuro.NM, nounexecutive, nounex-officio, adjectivefabricator, nounfederation, nounFinancial Accounting Standards Board, nounfire brigade, nounfire department, nounformation, nounfoundation, nounfrat, nounfraternity, nounFreemason, nounFreemasonry, nounfriendly society, nounfund, nounfunder, noungeneral headquarters, nounGinnie Mae, nounGirl Scout, nounguild, nounhealth care, nounhealth service, nounhierarchy, nounhousing association, nounICAO, IMF, the, induct, verbinduction, nouninfighting, nouninitiate, verbinitiate, nouninitiation, nouninside, adverbinsider, nouninstitute, nounInstitute of London Underwriters, nounInternational Securities Exchange, nounkibbutz, nounKKK, Ku Klux Klan, the, land office, nounLondon Clearing House, nounmarriage bureau, nounMasonic, adjectiveMMC, MNC, MNE, newsletter, nounNSPCC, order, nounpaternalism, nounpatriarchal, adjectivepenetrate, verbpowerhouse, nounpresident, nounpressure group, nounpublic enterprise, quorum, nounrating agency, realign, verbrecognize, verbrecruit, verbrecruit, nounregistry, nounreshuffle, nounresidents' association, nounreunion, nounRotary Club, the, Savings and Loan Association, nounsecede, verbsecretary, nounsecurities house, service club, nounShip, nounSoc., society, nounSRO, subscriber, nounsubscription, nountask force, nounthink tank, nountreasurer, nountrustee, nounUNICEF, unorganized, adjectivevertical, adjective
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY Meaning 2adjectives
· Censorship has no place in a free society.
· A civilized society should treat its elderly members well.
(=a society based on laws that everyone accepts)· The protection of human rights is essential for a civil society.
· We live in a multicultural society.
· Education is important in a democratic society.
· The Greeks formed the first advanced societies in the West.· This kind of hatred and violence have no place in a modern society like ours.
· In complex industrial societies, different groups specialize in particular activities.
· In almost all primitive societies, volcanoes have been regarded with fear.
· We are making progress towards a just society.
(=one in which people are not divided into different social classes)· the prime minister’s vision of a classless society
· As consumers in a capitalist society, we can press companies to behave responsibly.
(=used when comparing a small group of people to society as a whole)· The poor are part of the larger society, and programs must be there to help them.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
 the affluent Côte d'Azur
 Venetian art in this period was a closed world.
(=a society of people who want to buy a lot of things)· In the west, we live in a consumer society.
· What is the role of television in contemporary society?
 Drug abuse poses a major threat to the fabric of our society.
(=rich people of the highest social class)
· In every human society there is a struggle for power.
 By 1900, Britain was a mainly industrial society.
(=a citizen)· We want our children to become productive members of society.
 That man’s a menace to society. He should be locked away.
· In modern society, elderly relatives rarely live with their children.
 The two men were a mutual admiration society, gushing about how much they were learning from each other.
 a patriarchal society
 a permissive society
 a pluralist society
 the post-industrial information-based society
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
· Firstly capitalist society is by its very nature unstable.· They argued that one role of the state in capitalist society is to save capital from itself.· It is precisely this sense of legitimacy which is lacking in capitalist societies today.· In capitalist society the fetishism of commodities sustains the view that the accumulation of surplus value is a property of commodities themselves.· This Engels demonstrated brilliantly in his analysis of the position of women in capitalist society.· In capitalist society, the forces of production include the collective production of goods by large numbers of workers in factories.· Hence, class conflict is viewed as inevitable and indeed as the only major source of conflict in capitalist society.· It is, of course, possible to infer some aspects of bureaucracy in capitalist society from the functions assigned to the state.
· It also was the revenge of the bourgeoisie on civil society.· He is a reformer with an outspoken commitment to civil society, social justice, the rule of law and expanded freedom.· In the nineteenth century, however, they had entered civil society on a very important scale.· By this I mean the secular humanism that has allowed the flowering of civil society in the West.· In the shorthand of the modern world, business is seen as dynamic, civil society as conservative.· The world of civil societies has a great stake in the defeat of each.· Managing contradictory interests involves active participation and negotiation with other representatives of civil society.· All efforts to develop a civil society and increase contacts might now be terminated.
· Consumption rather than saving has become the central feature of contemporary societies.· The new religious revival is fueled by a revulsion with the corruptions of contemporary society.· But the health and wealth of contemporary society blinds us to the decadence and moral sickness under our noses.· Although the Stuart-Meredith growth charts have survived for 30 years, their usefulness in contemporary society is limited.· Before that, however, we must address the question of whether contemporary Western societies are still capitalist.· Much of contemporary society seems disadvantaged by a management view that extends not much beyond immediate profit preoccupations.· Therefore we need to study in greater depth the role played by television and other visual media in contemporary society.· Indeed, there is little in contemporary society which would surprise them.
· If we are interested in creating a democratic society there is clearly a great deal of work yet to be done.· No matter how democratic the society, they will always exist in some form.· These are the hallmarks of any system of decision making under any scheme of government regulation in a democratic society.· In democratic societies, on the other hand, his role as subject does not exhaust what is expected of him.· More thoughtful Conservatives are aware that a movement towards greater inequality can not continue indefinitely in a democratic society.· The promotion of individual interests rather than shared values can be dangerous in a heterogenous democratic society.· Both cities have high literacy rates. Democratic civil society is relatively strong and well-organised.· But the essential rules are necessary to a just and democratic society.
· What different forms does it take in different societies?· He thinks he can make us a different kind of society.· Her money is spread over several different building society accounts earning her only 5.7 percent or £1,140 a year.· I came and looked around and felt this campus is no different than the society at large.· One might almost speak of a complex symbiosis of different elements in society.· In the aftermath of the Stonewall Riots a vastly different gay society arose on the foundations of the closeted, semisecret past.· The aim of the ethnographic papers is to understand violent and peaceful behaviour in different societies.· Why does punishment take different forms in different societies and at different stages in history?
· To the latter end he was also responsible for establishing a savings bank at Workington, and for various friendly societies.· That system and the friendly societies were needed to keep doctors in business at all in the poorest areas of the industrial cities.· For some time we have been promised legislation to reform the laws on friendly societies.· By the end of the nineteenth century the friendly societies were also in financial trouble.· Their friendly society status means that they have no shareholders in the normal sense of the term.· Personal pensions are offered by insurance companies, banks, building societies, unit trusts and friendly societies.· These illustrations should not be used as a basis for comparing similar policies issues by other life assurance companies or friendly societies.
· From the perspective of psychoanalytic theory, religion has a key importance in human societies.· One can go to the thousands of human societies and find ingenious explanations for each incidence of masculinity and femininity.· You can't have a human society without crime.· Therefore in every human society the man has to bring something to the woman.· Eagleton could not put it more simply: Marxism is a scientific theory of human societies and the practice of transforming them.· The images of human nature and society built into the explanatory paradigms which dominate school curricula and texts are inadequate.· But what if they are looked at from the point of view of human society as a whole?· In their view, Spengler diagnosed the main historical trends of human society and accurately predicted the fate of decaying bourgeois society.
· The political Greens took it as confirmation that industrial society was indeed not sustainable.· The coal and petroleum are the great reserves of fossil fuels that we have relied on to power our industrial societies.· Congregationalism appealed to the better-off sections of industrial society.· Yet how could such political egoism be sustained in the face of industrial society, whose appalling realities so soon appeared?· However, modern industrial societies are different in all these respects.· He also made a special study of the outcasts, the waifs and strays of industrial society the vagrants and the idiots.· They produced very different theories about the origins, character and future path of industrial society.· In industrial society free action flourishes and diversity of opinion is tolerated.
· His death has triggered questions over whether a larger section of society than initially thought may be vulnerable to the disease.· Analysts have said they expect three of the four largest building societies to convert to banks in the coming few years.· Of the larger building societies, Chelsea is offering 10.25 percent net and Britannia 8.5 percent.· Woolwich, the third largest building society with 28 billion pounds in assets, intends to convert by late 1997.· Honey-bees lives in hives in large societies of about 15,000 bees.· The relationships and responsibilities that characterized life in the larger society could be put aside here, for better or for worse.· The biggest winners could be members of Nationwide, the largest building society.· She had urged her husband out into the large society in and about Liverpool but the forays had not been happy.
· At least five local law societies found it difficult to reach a consensus amongst their members on the matter.· Contact the state and local medical societies.· A number of local societies publish booklets which may be classified as mini-dictionaries.· Ask the local medical society and the local psychological organization.· Its premise, that a robust global economy is a prerequisite for healthy local societies, needs to be rethought.· It is indicative of the particular local society in Sheffield that this gesture had to be made.· From about 1913 onwards he became a reclusive eccentric, shunning both London and local society.
· This trend has only been strengthened with the enfranchisement of spending power in modern industrial societies.· Although of limited relevance to modern societies, it serves to introduce some of the crucial questions.· The source for the basic difference in taste is traced by Bourdieu to the different experiences of these classes in modern society.· Within modern capitalist societies the monopoly corporations constitute the dominant class fraction.· Therefore, important contrasts should be possible within modern society.· These criticisms of stratification theory derive from the known importance of gender as a criterion of social differentiation in modern society.· Functionalists have provided one of the more optimistic accounts of the nature of gender relations in modern society.· Yet old age within modern society appears to be closely associated with an increased experience of isolation.
· Lévi-Strauss misses all this by reading power into structures even in traditional society.· In traditional societies girl children are regarded as investments on which there is no return.· The traditional or segmental society is contrasted with the modern society.· There are many exceptions, though: In some but not most traditional human societies, men move to women.· Freshers' fair is the traditional showground where societies fall over themselves to attract some of the 5000 new students.· Families in traditional societies have such a contract.· This is reflected in the religion, which in turn serves as the model for traditional Hindu society.· Of possible contrasts, the most obvious would be the historical one between the socially shared beliefs of traditional and modern societies.
· For example, it has often been suggested that distinctive working-class and middle-class subcultures exist in Western industrial societies.· Attention to internal continuities, traditions, and structures, and to clashes between non-Western and Western societies and ideas.· Racism has permeated Western society, and Western psychiatry is no exception.· The above examples of culturally defined behaviour have been selected because they differ considerably from behaviour patterns in Western society.· He saw legal authority as characteristic of modern Western societies.· I believe the enormous pressure put on women to be skinny is the most important feminist issue in Western society.· Being a scientist in a western society, the researcher is unlikely to think that music or magic have much influence.· In Western society the value placed on human life is expressed in terms of the following norms.
NOUN
· Nor do banks and building societies provide satisfaction.· During the 1980s building societies found themselves under increasing competitive pressure.· But the result confirmed that building society provisions will rocket this year to cover bad and doubtful home loans.· However, the reluctance of the financial services divisions of banks and building societies to join the new body is causing concern.· The Tories are proud of the way they let the building societies wrestle the banks for customers, and viceversa.· Savings include cash, money in bank and building society accounts, national savings certificates and accounts, premium bonds and shares.· It is also worth looking at the smaller, regional building societies.
VERB
· In the past the best Tessa returns over five years have been from smaller building societies.· About half of the 290 million pounds of assets in building societies now will be controlled by banks in two years.· Dawson emphasized the importance of combining agricultural and urban for building a strong society.· Woolwich, the third largest building society with 28 billion pounds in assets, intends to convert by late 1997.· Cheshire, Skipton and Derbyshire building societies are among those that run offshore accounts and tend to pay attractive rates of interest.· Analysts have said they expect three of the four largest building societies to convert to banks in the coming few years.· Banks and building societies ask that children produce their birth certificate and proof of their parental address.· Fund managers aim to mix a cocktail of bonds that offer a return higher than the interest on a building society deposit.
· We aim to create a society in which all men and women can realise their full potential and shape their own successes.· The Arapesh created a society in which the greatest value is children but in which the children die for lack of food.· Because of these evils, we have failed to create a just society here.· He became increasingly more repressive, despite his pronouncements about creating a new society, free of corruption and graft.· Inequality in kibbutzim Despite these arrangements designed to create an egalitarian society, social inequality exists in the kibbutzim.· W., to creating the new society within the shell of the old.· Ants can create a structured society without being possessed, individually, of very much by way of brain.· Marginalized people are simply creating their own society, says the retired diplomat.
· We live in a society that is, to all intents, totalitarian.· But who would want to live in such a society?· I would suggest a counter-proposition: that we are living in a society that is sick and tired of information.· Until the 1970s primatologists were busy confirming our prejudices about peaceable apes living in nonviolent societies.· Could I really stand to live in a society where men had all the privileges and women none?· Yet we live in a society in which there are very great pressures on us to keep those subjects in watertight compartments.· But I live in a transition society.
Phrases
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY
  • You don't talk about things like that in polite society.
  • As well as dens and thieves' kitchens like the Bush and Tontine Closes, polite society had its problems also.
  • Corydon is a shepherd, and Phillario is a sophisticated man accustomed to polite society.
  • Her passion for natural history became increasingly fashionable in polite society during the 17605.
  • In the good old days of rampant dualism, the mind was rarely mentioned in polite society.
  • It was obvious from the scenes that such behavior did not belong in polite society.
  • Raymond Williams's assessment of Stephen Duck's collapse as a poet once he entered polite society has already been commented upon.
  • The picture adorned Oz's cover, and outraged polite society.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► the big society► a broken society► the dregs of society/humanity
  • Equally important is how a baby communicates back to caregivers and the world at large.
  • How then did this concept originate, and why has it received such currency among specialists and the public at large?
  • However, in spite of that, the availability both here and in Britain should be known to the public at large.
  • I came and looked around and felt this campus is no different than the society at large.
  • In some societies the boy-preferring habit seems to have spread from elites to the society at large.
  • The rise of the Internet has taken that idea from offices to the world at large.
  • They chattered on among themselves, oblivious to the world at large, lovingly cared for in this cozy place.
  • ACCORDING to acquaintances who move in the twilight world of Private Eye, the satirical magazine is hoping for a Conservative victory.
  • As if they would move in the same circles.
  • He moved in exalted circles - and was ambitious for greater things.
  • I thought I could move in the world of all possible lights, and breathe, breathe, breathe.
  • In the 1980s there has been a general move in museum education circles towards active learning experiences on site.
  • It was a pleasing thought, that I might soon be moving in more exalted circles.
  • Tanya insists on moving in many circles and, above all, on thinking for herself.
  • We move in the same circles.
  • After 20 years in jail, Murray feels he has paid his debt to society.
► pillar of society/the community/the church etc
  • You can't use words like that in polite company.
  • Her passion for natural history became increasingly fashionable in polite society during the 17605.
  • In the good old days of rampant dualism, the mind was rarely mentioned in polite society.
  • It was not the sort of thing you did in polite company.
  • It was obvious from the scenes that such behavior did not belong in polite society.
  • Trevor Proby is another, of course, but his notables should not be discussed in polite company.
  • With sad paradox, Mr Punch himself became the man in the Bateman cartoon, unwelcome in polite company.
  • But this is a throwaway society.
Word family
WORD FAMILYnounsocietysociologistsociologysociabilitysocialsocialismsocialistsocialitesocializationsociopathadjectivesociable ≠ unsociablesocial ≠ anti-socialunsocialsocialistsocialisticsocietalsociologicalsociopathicadverbsociallysociablysociologicallyverbsocialize
1people in general [uncountable] people in general, considered in relation to the laws, organizations etc that make it possible for them to live together:  technology and its effects on modern society Children are the most vulnerable members of society.2a particular group [countable, uncountable] a particular large group of people who share laws, organizations, customs etc:  Britain is now a multiracial society. the capitalist societies of the West the conservative segment of American society3club [countable] an organization or club with members who share similar interests, aims etc:  the university film society the American Cancer Societysociety of the Society of Black Lawyers► see thesaurus at organization4upper class [uncountable] the fashionable group of people who are rich and powerful:  a society weddinghigh society (=the richest, most fashionable etc people)5being with people [uncountable] formal when you are together with other peoplesociety of Holidays are a time to enjoy the society of your family.6polite society middle- or upper-class people who behave correctly in social situationsin polite society (=among middle- or upper-class people) The subject was rarely mentioned in polite society. → building society, friendly societyCOLLOCATIONS– Meaning 2adjectivesa free society· Censorship has no place in a free society.a civilized society· A civilized society should treat its elderly members well.a civil society (=a society based on laws that everyone accepts)· The protection of human rights is essential for a civil society.a multicultural/multiracial society· We live in a multicultural society.a democratic society· Education is important in a democratic society.an advanced/modern society· The Greeks formed the first advanced societies in the West.· This kind of hatred and violence have no place in a modern society like ours.an industrial society· In complex industrial societies, different groups specialize in particular activities.a primitive society· In almost all primitive societies, volcanoes have been regarded with fear.a just society· We are making progress towards a just society.a classless society (=one in which people are not divided into different social classes)· the prime minister’s vision of a classless societya capitalist society· As consumers in a capitalist society, we can press companies to behave responsibly.the larger/wider society (=used when comparing a small group of people to society as a whole)· The poor are part of the larger society, and programs must be there to help them.
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