 3 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
social
adjective
1: relating to human society and its members; "social
institutions"; "societal evolution"; "societal
forces"; "social legislation" [syn: {societal}]
2: living together or enjoying life in communities or organized
groups; "human beings are social animals"; "spent a
relaxed social evening"; "immature social behavior" [ant:
{unsocial}]
3: relating to or belonging to or characteristic of high
society; "made fun of her being so social and high-toned";
"a social gossip colum"; "the society page"
4: composed of sociable people or formed for the purpose of
sociability; "a purely social club"; "the church has a
large social hall"; "a social director"
5: (of birds and animals) tending to move or live together in
groups or colonies of the same kind; "ants are social
insects"; "the herding instinct in sheep or cattle";
"swarming behavior in bees" [syn: {herding(a)}, {swarming(a)}]
6: marked by friendly companionship with others; "a social cup
of coffee"
noun: a party of people assembled to promote sociability and
communal activity [syn: {sociable}, {mixer}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Social \So"cial\, adjective [L. socialis, from socius a companion; akin
to sequi to follow: cf. F. social. See {Sue} to follow.]
1. Of or pertaining to society; relating to men living in
society, or to the public as an aggregate body; as, social
interest or concerns; social pleasure; social benefits;
social happiness; social duties. ''Social phenomena.''
--J. S. Mill.
2. Ready or disposed to mix in friendly converse;
companionable; sociable; as, a social person.
3. Consisting in union or mutual intercourse.
Best with thyself accompanied, seek'st not
Social communication. --Milton.
4. (Bot.) Naturally growing in groups or masses; -- said of
many individual plants of the same species.
5. (Zo["o]l.)
(a) Living in communities consisting of males, females,
and neuters, as do ants and most bees.
(b) Forming compound groups or colonies by budding from
basal processes or stolons; as, the social ascidians.
{Social science}, the science of all that relates to the
social condition, the relations and institutions which are
involved in man's existence and his well-being as a member
of an organized community; sociology. It concerns itself
with questions of the public health, education, labor,
punishment of crime, reformation of criminals, and the
like.
{Social whale} (Zo["o]l.), the blackfish.
{The social evil}, prostitution.
Syn: Sociable; companionable; conversible; friendly;
familiar; communicative; convival; festive.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
73 Moby Thesaurus words for "social":
affable, affair, amiable, amusing, associated, associational,
at home, civic, civil, clubbable, clubbish, clubby, coalitional,
collective, collectivistic, common, communal, communicative,
communistic, community, commutual, companionable, companionate,
compatible, congenial, conjoint, convivial, cooperative, cordial,
cosmopolitan, courteous, entertaining, fit for society,
fond of society, friendly, gathering, general, genial,
get-together, gracious, gregarious, group, hospitable, in common,
international, joint, levee, matinee, mutual, national,
organizational, pleasant, pleasurable, popular, public, reception,
reciprocal, reunion, salon, sexual, sociable, social affair,
social gathering, social-minded, socialistic, societal, society,
soiree, state, supranational, urbane, venereal, wake
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