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SOCIAL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does social mean?
• SOCIAL (noun)
The noun SOCIAL has 1 sense:
1. a party of people assembled to promote sociability and communal activity
Familiarity information: SOCIAL used as a noun is very rare.
• SOCIAL (adjective)
The adjective SOCIAL has 6 senses:
1. relating to human society and its members
2. living together or enjoying life in communities or organized groups
3. relating to or belonging to or characteristic of high society
4. composed of sociable people or formed for the purpose of sociability
5. tending to move or live together in groups or colonies of the same kind
6. marked by friendly companionship with others
Familiarity information: SOCIAL used as an adjective is common.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A party of people assembled to promote sociability and communal activity
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
Hypernyms ("social" is a kind of...):
party (a group of people gathered together for pleasure)
Derivation:
social (marked by friendly companionship with others)
social (composed of sociable people or formed for the purpose of sociability)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Relating to human society and its members
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Synonyms:
social; societal
Context example:
social legislation
Pertainym:
society (an extended social group having a distinctive cultural and economic organization)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Living together or enjoying life in communities or organized groups
Context example:
mature social behavior
Similar:
cultural; ethnic; ethnical (denoting or deriving from or distinctive of the ways of living built up by a group of people)
gregarious (instinctively or temperamentally seeking and enjoying the company of others)
interpersonal (occurring among or involving several people)
multi-ethnic; multiethnic (involving several ethnic groups)
Also:
friendly (characteristic of or befitting a friend)
gregarious ((of animals) tending to form a group with others of the same species)
sociable (inclined to or conducive to companionship with others)
Attribute:
sociality (the tendency to associate with others and to form social groups)
Antonym:
unsocial (not seeking or given to association; being or living without companions)
Derivation:
sociality (the tendency to associate with others and to form social groups)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Relating to or belonging to or characteristic of high society
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Context example:
the society page
Pertainym:
society (the fashionable elite)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Composed of sociable people or formed for the purpose of sociability
Context example:
a social director
Similar:
sociable (inclined to or conducive to companionship with others)
Derivation:
social (a party of people assembled to promote sociability and communal activity)
sociality (the tendency to associate with others and to form social groups)
Sense 5
Meaning:
Tending to move or live together in groups or colonies of the same kind
Context example:
ants are social insects
Similar:
gregarious ((of animals) tending to form a group with others of the same species)
Domain category:
animal; animate being; beast; brute; creature; fauna (a living organism characterized by voluntary movement)
Derivation:
sociality (the tendency to associate with others and to form social groups)
Sense 6
Meaning:
Marked by friendly companionship with others
Context example:
a social cup of coffee
Similar:
friendly (characteristic of or befitting a friend)
Derivation:
social (a party of people assembled to promote sociability and communal activity)
sociality (the tendency to associate with others and to form social groups)
Context examples
Terminology associated with the social risk factor codelist of the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) Standard Data Tabulation Model (SDTM).
(CDISC SDTM Social Risk Factor Terminology, NCI Thesaurus)
There was, therefore, as can be imagined, some little social friction when the young couple (for they were still young) found themselves in their new surroundings.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It was a pleasant evening indeed, and we voted that as a social function on Endeavour Island it had not yet been eclipsed.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Mental health includes our emotional, psychological, and social well-being.
(Mental Health, NIH)
A question about whether an individual had nausea that interfered with social life during the past 24 hours.
(Nausea Interfered With Social Life During Past 24 Hours, NCI Thesaurus)
The Cancer Clinical Trials Education Program provides training to nurses and social workers to educate patients and their families about clinical trials.
(Cancer Clinical Trials Education Program, NCI Thesaurus)
The first half of February will be your most fun and social.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Developmental delays in social interaction and language surface prior to age 3 years.
(Autism, NCI Thesaurus)
Social relationships may be greatly affected but usually remain within acceptable limits.
(Neurosis, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
While concentrating on cardiac/vascular health, the practice considers all influences on health status and the related social and behavioral problems.
(Cardiac/Vascular Nursing, NCI Thesaurus)
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