Society

The relationship of men to one another when associated in any way; companionship; fellowship; company.

Connection; participation; partnership.

A number of persons associated for any temporary or permanent object; an association for mutual or joint usefulness, pleasure, or profit; a social union; a partnership; as, a missionary society.

The persons, collectively considered, who live in any region or at any period; any community of individuals who are united together by a common bond of nearness or intercourse; those who recognize each other as associates, friends, and acquaintances.

Specifically, the more cultivated portion of any community in its social relations and influences; those who mutually give receive formal entertainments.

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"

an extended social group having a distinctive cultural and economic organization

the state of being with someone; "he missed their company"; "he enjoyed the society of his friends"