society

Other forms of society

plural

societies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about society

What does society mean?

society means "an extended social group having a distinctive cultural and economic organization". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in society?

society has 4 syllables: so-ci-e-ty. The stress falls on "ci". In IPA it is /səˈsaɪəti/.

What is another word for society?

Close synonyms include club, social club, guild, gild, lodge. 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 society a common word?

society is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.