名词

1. an extended social group having a distinctive cultural and economic organization

2. a formal association of people with similar interests

e.g. he joined a golf club
they formed a small lunch society
men from the fraternal order will staff the soup kitchen today

Synonym: clubsocial clubguildgildlodgeorder

3. the fashionable elite

Synonym: high societybeau mondesmart setbon ton

4. the state of being with someone

e.g. he missed their company
he enjoyed the society of his friends

Synonym: companycompanionshipfellowship