social function

Questions about social function

What does social function mean?

social function means "a vaguely specified social event".

What is another word for social function?

Close synonyms include affair, occasion, social occasion, function. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is social function a common word?

social function is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.