society

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• Received-Pronunciation: /səˈsaɪ.ə.ti/
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• Canada, General-American: /səˈsaɪ.ə.ti/
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• Canada, General-American: [səˈsaɪ.ə.ɾi]
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• Australian: /səˈsɑe.ə.ti/
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• Australian: [səˈsɑe̯.ə.ɾi]
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• New-Zealand: /səˈsaɪ.ə.ti/
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• New-Zealand: [səˈsɑe̯.ə.ɾi]
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• India, North: /soːˈsɑːj(ə).ʈiː/
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• India, South: /soˈsəj(ə).ʈiː/
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• CMU ARPABET: S AH0 S AY1 AH0 T IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sekw- Proto-Indo-European *-h2 Proto-Indo-European *-éh2 Proto-Indo-European *sokwéh2 Proto-Indo-European *-ṓy Proto-Indo-European *sokwh2ṓy Proto-Indo-European *-yós Proto-Indo-European *sokwyós Proto-Italic *sokjos Latin sokios Latin socius Proto-Indo-European *-teh2 Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh2ts Proto-Italic *-tāts Latin -tās Latin societāslbor. Old French societé Middle French societébor. English society Borrowed from Middle French societé, from Old French societé, from Latin societās, societātem (“fellowship, association, alliance, union, community”), from socius (“associated, allied; partner, companion, ally”), from Proto-Indo-European *sokw-yo- (“companion”), from Proto-Indo-European *sekw- (“to follow”). First attested in the 1530s.

297 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: samelewing — group of people sharing culture
• Afrikaans: gemeenskap — group of people sharing culture
• Albanian: shoqëri — group of people sharing culture
• Amharic: ኅብረተሰብ (ḫəbrätäsäb) — group of people sharing culture
• Arabic: مُجْتَمَع (mujtamaʕ) — group of people sharing culture
• Arabic: جَمَاعَة (jamāʕa) — group of people sharing culture
• Arabic: جَامِعَة (jāmiʕa) — group of people sharing culture
• Aragonese: soziedá — group of people sharing culture
• Armenian: հասարակություն (hasarakutʻyun) — group of people sharing culture
• Assamese: সমাজ (xomaz) — group of people sharing culture
• Asturian: sociedá — group of people sharing culture
• Azerbaijani: cəmiyyət — group of people sharing culture
• Bashkir: йәмғиәт (yəmğiət) — group of people sharing culture
• Basque: gizarte — group of people sharing culture
• Belarusian: грама́дства (hramádstva) — group of people sharing culture
• Bengali: সমাজ (śomaj) — group of people sharing culture
• Bulgarian: общество́ (obštestvó) — group of people sharing culture
• Burmese: လူတော (lutau:) — group of people sharing culture
• Burmese: လူ့ဘောင် (lu.bhaung) — group of people sharing culture
• Burmese: လူ့အဖွဲ့အစည်း (lu.a.hpwai.a.cany:) — group of people sharing culture
• Buryat: ниигэм (niigem) — group of people sharing culture
• Carpathian Rusyn: грома́да (hromáda) — group of people sharing culture
• Carpathian Rusyn: сполоченство (spoločenstvo) — group of people sharing culture
• Catalan: societat — group of people sharing culture
• Chechen: юкъаралла (juqʼaralla) — group of people sharing culture
• Chechen: йукъаралла (juqʼaralla) — group of people sharing culture
• Cherokee: ᎤᎾᏙᏢᎯ (unadotlvhi) — group of people sharing culture
• Chinese Cantonese: 社會 /社会 — group of people sharing culture
• Chinese: шәхуэй (šəhuey) — group of people sharing culture
• Eastern Min Chinese: 社會 /社会 (siâ-huôi) — group of people sharing culture
• Hakka Chinese: 社會 /社会 (sa-fi) — group of people sharing culture
• Chinese: 社會 /社会 (zh-min-nan) — group of people sharing culture
• Chinese Mandarin: 社會 /社会 (shèhuì) — group of people sharing culture
• Wu Chinese: 社會 /社会 (6zo-we) — group of people sharing culture
• Chuvash: пӗрлӗх (pĕrlĕh) — group of people sharing culture
• Czech: společnost — group of people sharing culture
• Danish: samfund — group of people sharing culture
• Dhivehi: މުޖުތަމަޢު (mujutamaʿu) — group of people sharing culture
• Dutch: maatschappij — group of people sharing culture
• Dutch: samenleving — group of people sharing culture
• Esperanto: socio — group of people sharing culture
• Estonian: ühiskond — group of people sharing culture
• Faroese: samfelag — group of people sharing culture
• Finnish: yhteiskunta — group of people sharing culture
• French: société — group of people sharing culture
• West-Frisian: maatskippij — group of people sharing culture
• Friulian: societât — group of people sharing culture
• Galician: sociedade — group of people sharing culture
• Georgian: საზოგადოება (sazogadoeba) — group of people sharing culture
• German: Gesellschaft — group of people sharing culture
• Greek: κοινωνία (koinonía) — group of people sharing culture
• Gujarati: સમાજ (samāj) — group of people sharing culture
• Hawaiian: ʻahahui — group of people sharing culture
• Hebrew: חֶבְרָה (khevrá) — group of people sharing culture
• Hindi: समाज (samāj) — group of people sharing culture
• Hungarian: társaság — group of people sharing culture
• Hungarian: társadalom — group of people sharing culture
• Icelandic: samfélag — group of people sharing culture
• Icelandic: þjóðfélag — group of people sharing culture
• Ido: socio — group of people sharing culture
• Indonesian: masyarakat — group of people sharing culture
• Interlingua: societate — group of people sharing culture
• Irish: sochaí — group of people sharing culture
• Italian: società — group of people sharing culture
• Japanese: 社会 (shakai) — group of people sharing culture
• Javanese: ꦩꦱꦾꦫꦏꦠ꧀ (masyarakat) — group of people sharing culture
• Kannada: ಸಮಾಜ (samāja) — group of people sharing culture
• Kazakh: қоғам (qoğam) — group of people sharing culture
• Kazakh: қауым (qauym) — group of people sharing culture
• Kazakh: жамағат (jamağat) — group of people sharing culture
• Khmer: សង្គម (sɑngkum) — group of people sharing culture
• Korean: 사회 (sahoe) — group of people sharing culture
• Central Kurdish: کۆمەڵایەتی (komellayetî) — group of people sharing culture
• Northern Kurdish: civak — group of people sharing culture
• Northern Kurdish: sosyete — group of people sharing culture
• Kyrgyz: коом (koom) — group of people sharing culture
• Kyrgyz: жамаат (jamaat) — group of people sharing culture
• Lao: ສັງຄົມ — group of people sharing culture
• Latin: societās — group of people sharing culture
• Latvian: sabiedrība — group of people sharing culture
• Ligurian: societæ — group of people sharing culture
• Lithuanian: visuomenė — group of people sharing culture
• Lü: ᦂᦱᦟᦰᦢᦱᧃᧉᦵᦙᦲᧂ (k̇aal!ḃaan2moeng) — group of people sharing culture
• Luxembourgish: Gesellschaft — group of people sharing culture
• Macedonian: општество (opštestvo) — group of people sharing culture
• Malagasy: fiarahamonina — group of people sharing culture
• Malay: masyarakat — group of people sharing culture
• Malayalam: സമൂഹം (samūhaṁ) — group of people sharing culture
• Maltese: soċjetà — group of people sharing culture
• Māori: porihanga — group of people sharing culture
• Marathi: समाज (samāj) — group of people sharing culture
• Mirandese: sociadade — group of people sharing culture
• Mongolian: нийгэм (niigem) — group of people sharing culture
• Mongolian: ᠨᠡᠶᠢᠭᠡᠮ (neyigem) — group of people sharing culture
• Nepali: समाज (samāj) — group of people sharing culture
• Norman: sociêté — group of people sharing culture
• Norwegian Bokmål: samfunn — group of people sharing culture
• Norwegian Nynorsk: samfunn — group of people sharing culture
• Occitan: societat — group of people sharing culture
• Occitan: societat — group of people sharing culture
• Odia: ସମାଜ (samāja) — group of people sharing culture
• Old English: ġefērscipe — group of people sharing culture
• Old English: drohtaþ — group of people sharing culture
• Pacoh: dúng veil — group of people sharing culture
• Pannonian Rusyn: дружтво (družtvo) — group of people sharing culture
• Pashto: ټولنه (ṭolᶕna) — group of people sharing culture
• Pashto: جامعه (jāme'a) — group of people sharing culture
• Pashto: اجتماع (ejtemā') — group of people sharing culture
• Persian: هازمان (hāzmān) — group of people sharing culture
• Dari: جَامِعَه (jāmi'a) — group of people sharing culture
• Dari: اِجْتِمَاع (ijtimā') — group of people sharing culture
• Dari: اَنْجُمَن (anjuman) — group of people sharing culture
• Iranian Persian: جامِعِه (jâme'e) — group of people sharing culture
• Iranian Persian: اِجْتِماع (ejtemâ') — group of people sharing culture
• Iranian Persian: اَنْجُمَن (anjoman) — group of people sharing culture
• Polish: społeczeństwo — group of people sharing culture
• Portuguese: sociedade — group of people sharing culture
• Punjabi: ਸਮਾਜ (samāj) — group of people sharing culture
• Punjabi: سَماج (samāj) — group of people sharing culture
• Romanian: societate — group of people sharing culture
• Romansh: societad — group of people sharing culture
• Romansh: sozietad — group of people sharing culture
• Romansh: societed — group of people sharing culture
• Romansh: società — group of people sharing culture
• Russian: о́бщество (óbščestvo) — group of people sharing culture
• Russian: со́циум (sócium) — group of people sharing culture
• Scottish Gaelic: comann-sòisealta — group of people sharing culture
• Scottish Gaelic: sòisealtas — group of people sharing culture
• Serbo-Croatian: дру́штво — group of people sharing culture
• Serbo-Croatian: drúštvo — group of people sharing culture
• Shan: မုၵ်ႉၸုမ်း (mṵ̂k tsúm) — group of people sharing culture
• Sinhalese: සමාජය (samājaya) — group of people sharing culture
• Slovak: spoločnosť — group of people sharing culture
• Old Slovak: obecenstvo — group of people sharing culture
• Slovene: družba — group of people sharing culture
• Spanish: sociedad — group of people sharing culture
• Sranan Tongo: libimakandra — group of people sharing culture
• Swahili: jamii — group of people sharing culture
• Swedish: samhälle — group of people sharing culture
• Tagalog: lipunan — group of people sharing culture
• Tagalog: ulnong — group of people sharing culture
• Tajik: ҷамъият (jam'iyat) — group of people sharing culture
• Tajik: ҷамоат (jamoat) — group of people sharing culture
• Tajik: ҷомеа (jomea) — group of people sharing culture
• Tajik: иҷтимоъ (ijtimo') — group of people sharing culture
• Tajik: анҷуман (anjuman) — group of people sharing culture
• Tamil: சமூகம் (camūkam) — group of people sharing culture
• Tatar: җәмгыять (cämğeyät) — group of people sharing culture
• Telugu: సమాజం (samājaṁ) — group of people sharing culture
• Thai: สังคม (sǎng-kom) — group of people sharing culture
• Tibetan: སྤྱི་ཚོགས (spyi tshogs) — group of people sharing culture
• Tokelauan: hohaiete — group of people sharing culture
• Turkish: toplum — group of people sharing culture
• Turkish: sosyete — group of people sharing culture
• Turkish: cemiyet — group of people sharing culture
• Ottoman Turkish: جمعیت (cemʼiyet) — group of people sharing culture
• Ottoman Turkish: انجمن (encümen) — group of people sharing culture
• Turkmen: jemgyýet — group of people sharing culture
• Tuvan: ниитилел (niitilel) — group of people sharing culture
• Ukrainian: суспі́льство (suspílʹstvo) — group of people sharing culture
• Ukrainian: со́ціум (sócium) — group of people sharing culture
• Urdu: سَماج (samāj) — group of people sharing culture
• Urdu: جَماعَت (jamā'at) — group of people sharing culture
• Urdu: اَنْجُمَن (anjuman) — group of people sharing culture
• Uyghur: جەمئىيەت (jem'iyet) — group of people sharing culture
• Uzbek: jamiyat — group of people sharing culture
• Uzbek: jamoa — group of people sharing culture
• Uzbek: anjuman — group of people sharing culture
• Vietnamese: xã hội — group of people sharing culture
• Welsh: cymdeithas — group of people sharing culture
• Yakut: уопсастыба (uopsastïba) — group of people sharing culture
• Yiddish: געזעלשאַפֿט (gezelshaft) — group of people sharing culture
• Zhuang: sevei — group of people sharing culture
• Arabic: جَمْعِيَّة (jamʕiyya) — group of persons who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest
• Armenian: հասարակություն (hasarakutʻyun) — group of persons who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest
• Armenian: ընկերություն (ənkerutʻyun) — group of persons who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest
• Belarusian: тавары́ства (tavarýstva) — group of persons who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest
• Belarusian: грама́дства (hramádstva) — group of persons who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest
• Belarusian: згуртава́нне (zhurtavánnje) — group of persons who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest
• Bengali: আঞ্জুমান (anjuman) — group of persons who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest
• Bulgarian: дру́жество (drúžestvo) — group of persons who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest
• Burmese: အဖွဲ့ (a.hpwai.) — group of persons who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest
• Burmese: အဖွဲ့အစည်း (a.hpwai.a.cany:) — group of persons who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest
• Burmese: သမဂ္ဂ (sa.magga.) — group of persons who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest
• Chinese Mandarin: 會 /会 (huì) — group of persons who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest
• Chinese Mandarin: 會社 /会社 (huìshè) — group of persons who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest
• Chinese Mandarin: 學會 /学会 (xuéhuì) — group of persons who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest
• Chinese Mandarin: 協會 /协会 (xiéhuì) — group of persons who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest
• Czech: společnost — group of persons who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest
• Czech: spolek — group of persons who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest
• Dutch: vereniging — group of persons who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest
• Dutch: gezelschap — group of persons who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest
• Dutch: sociëteit — group of persons who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest
• Esperanto: societo — group of persons who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest
• Finnish: yhteisö — group of persons who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest
• Finnish: yhdistys — group of persons who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest
• Finnish: seura — group of persons who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest
• Finnish: kerho — group of persons who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest
• Galician: sociedade — group of persons who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest
• German: Gesellschaft — group of persons who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest
• Greek: σύλλογος (sýllogos) — group of persons who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest
• Greek: εταιρεία (etaireía) — group of persons who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest
• Gujarati: સંગત (saṅgat) — group of persons who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest
• Hausa: jam'iyya — group of persons who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest
• Hindi: संस्था (sansthā) — group of persons who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest
• Hindi: संघ (saṅgh) — group of persons who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest
• Icelandic: félag — group of persons who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest
• Ido: societo — group of persons who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest
• Igbo: oha — group of persons who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest
• Indonesian: perkumpulan — group of persons who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest
• Irish: cumann — group of persons who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest
• Italian: società — group of persons who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest
• Italian: associazione — group of persons who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest
• Japanese: 組織 (soshiki) — group of persons who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest
• Japanese: 協会 (kyōkai) — group of persons who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest
• Khmer: សមាគម (saʼmaakum) — group of persons who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest
• Korean: 모임 (moim) — group of persons who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest
• Korean: 회 (hoe) — group of persons who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest
• Korean: 협회 (hyeophoe) — group of persons who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest
• Korean: 학회 (hakhoe) — group of persons who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest
• Korean: 조합 (johap) — group of persons who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest
• Korean: 연구회 (yeon'guhoe) — group of persons who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest
• Korean: 단체 (danche) — group of persons who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest
• Korean: 동호회 (donghohoe) — group of persons who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest
• Central Kurdish: کۆمەڵایەتی (komellayetî) — group of persons who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest
• Latin: sodālitās — group of persons who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest
• Lü: ᦃᦼᧈ (ẋuy1) — group of persons who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest
• Macedonian: друштво (društvo) — group of persons who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest
• Malay: persatuan — group of persons who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest
• Maltese: għaqda — group of persons who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest
• Māori: rōpū — group of persons who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest
• Māori: manatōpū — group of persons who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest
• Norwegian Bokmål: forening — group of persons who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest
• Norwegian Nynorsk: foreining — group of persons who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest
• Polish: stowarzyszenie — group of persons who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest
• Polish: towarzystwo — group of persons who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest
• Portuguese: grupo — group of persons who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest
• Portuguese: sociedade — group of persons who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest
• Portuguese: associação — group of persons who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest
• Portuguese: grêmio — group of persons who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest
• Portuguese: agremiação — group of persons who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest
• Romanian: societate — group of persons who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest
• Russian: о́бщество (óbščestvo) — group of persons who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest
• Russian: соо́бщество (soóbščestvo) — group of persons who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest
• Scottish Gaelic: cuideachd — group of persons who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest
• Serbo-Croatian: дру́штво — group of persons who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest
• Serbo-Croatian: drúštvo — group of persons who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest
• Slovak: spoločnosť — group of persons who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest
• Slovak: spolok — group of persons who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest
• Slovene: družba — group of persons who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest
• Slovene: društvo — group of persons who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest
• Spanish: sociedad — group of persons who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest
• Swahili: chama — group of persons who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest
• Swedish: förening — group of persons who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest
• Tagalog: samahan — group of persons who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest
• Telugu: సంఘం (saṅghaṁ) — group of persons who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest
• Ottoman Turkish: جمعیت (cemʼiyet) — group of persons who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest
• Ottoman Turkish: انجمن (encümen) — group of persons who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest
• Ottoman Turkish: محفل (mahfil) — group of persons who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest
• Ukrainian: товари́ство (tovarýstvo) — group of persons who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest
• Ukrainian: суспі́льство (suspílʹstvo) — group of persons who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest
• Ukrainian: спі́лка (spílka) — group of persons who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest
• Welsh: cymdeithas — group of persons who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest
• Arabic: اِجْتِمَاعِيَّة (ijtimāʕiyya) — people of one’s country or community as a whole
• Armenian: հասարակություն (hasarakutʻyun) — people of one’s country or community as a whole
• Bulgarian: обще́ственост (obštéstvenost) — people of one’s country or community as a whole
• Czech: společnost — people of one’s country or community as a whole
• Dutch: gezelschap — people of one’s country or community as a whole
• Finnish: yhteisö — people of one’s country or community as a whole
• Galician: sociedade — people of one’s country or community as a whole
• German: Gesellschaft — people of one’s country or community as a whole
• Greek: κοινωνία (koinonía) — people of one’s country or community as a whole
• Icelandic: samfélag — people of one’s country or community as a whole
• Indonesian: masyarakat — people of one’s country or community as a whole
• Italian: società — people of one’s country or community as a whole
• Korean: 사회 (sahoe) — people of one’s country or community as a whole
• Kyrgyz: коом (koom) — people of one’s country or community as a whole
• Maltese: soċjetà — people of one’s country or community as a whole
• Maltese: ġens — people of one’s country or community as a whole
• Māori: porihanga — people of one’s country or community as a whole
• Polish: społeczeństwo — people of one’s country or community as a whole
• Polish: naród — people of one’s country or community as a whole
• Portuguese: sociedade — people of one’s country or community as a whole
• Romanian: societate — people of one’s country or community as a whole
• Romanian: mediu — people of one’s country or community as a whole
• Russian: наро́д (naród) — people of one’s country or community as a whole
• Serbo-Croatian: дру́штво — people of one’s country or community as a whole
• Serbo-Croatian: за̏једница — people of one’s country or community as a whole
• Serbo-Croatian: drúštvo — people of one’s country or community as a whole
• Serbo-Croatian: zȁjednica — people of one’s country or community as a whole
• Sicilian: sucità — people of one’s country or community as a whole
• Sicilian: cumunità — people of one’s country or community as a whole
• Spanish: sociedad — people of one’s country or community as a whole
• Spanish: comunidad — people of one’s country or community as a whole
• Swedish: samhälle — people of one’s country or community as a whole
• Tagalog: sambayanan — people of one’s country or community as a whole
• Telugu: సంపన్న వర్గం (sampanna vargaṁ) — people of one’s country or community as a whole