social structure

Questions about social structure

What is another word for social structure?

It depends which social structure you mean. In the sense “the people in a society considered as a system organized by a characteristic pattern of relationships”, the synonyms are social organization, social organisation, social system, structure. Across all 1 sense there are 4 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of social structure?

WordNet records no antonym for social structure. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for social structure come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of social structure

• Full entry for social structureAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for social structureWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.