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1. An extended social group having a distinctive cultural and economic organization
    
2. A formal association of people with similar interests
   "they formed a small lunch society";
   - club, social club, guild, gild, lodge, order
    
3. The state of being with someone
   "he enjoyed the society of his friends";
   - company, companionship, fellowship
    
4. The fashionable elite
   - high society, beau monde, smart set, bon ton

Derived forms: societies

Type of: association, elite, élite [Brit], elite group, friendly relationship, friendship, mateship [Austral, NZ], social group

Encyclopedia: Society, The Catholic Church Extension