Word Finder - society

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A long-standing group of people sharing cultural aspects such as language, dress, norms of behavior and artistic forms.

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This society has been known for centuries for its colorful clothing and tight-knit family structure.

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A group of people who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest; an association or organization.

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It was then that they decided to found a society of didgeridoo-playing unicyclists.

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The sum total of all voluntary interrelations between individuals.

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The gap between Western and Eastern societies seems to be narrowing.

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The people of one’s country or community taken as a whole.

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Our global society develops in fits and starts.

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High society.

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Smith was first introduced into society at the Duchess of Grand Fenwick's annual rose garden party.

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A number of people joined by mutual consent to deliberate, determine and act toward a common goal.

I thought maybe I wasn't high society material.

He had a brilliant position in society thanks to his intimacy with Countess Bezukhova, a brilliant position in the service thanks to the patronage of an important personage whose complete confidence he enjoyed, and he was beginning to make plans for marrying one of the richest heiresses in Petersburg, plans which might very easily be realized.

Only Countess Helene, considering the society of such people as the Bergs beneath her, could be cruel enough to refuse such an invitation.

All the pretty women in society will be there.

The society need not be secret if the government allows it.

The Society of St Vincent de Paul was founded by Frederic Ozanam and others in 1833, in reply to a charge brought by some free-thinking contemporaries that the church no longer had the strength to inaugurate a practical enterprise.

I had withdrawn so far within the great ocean of solitude, into which the rivers of society empty, that for the most part, so far as my needs were concerned, only the finest sediment was deposited around me.

The society gathered together at the governor's was the best in Voronezh.

Someone like you is going to end up in our private society anyway.

Having spent enough time on the ship to understand the odd society, she knew better than to charge in and handle what he would consider his duty.

Can a man so important and necessary to society be also my husband?

He knew one way of life, and that way had no place in the peaceful society she hoped to return to.

Society is as necessary to form persons as persons are to constitute society.

In some ways also the study of highly developed organizations like the modern industrial state is simpler than that of earlier forms of society.

This poem, though rare and little known, is still in existence - the Royal Asiatic Society possessing a copy.

This extremely rare book has been reprinted by the Willughby Society.

In 1855 he became an undergraduate member of Balliol College, Oxford, of which society he was, in 1860, elected fellow.

Deciding not to enter the ministry, he paid back the money advanced by the society.

Both of these treatises have also been reprinted by the Willughby Society.

Moreover, toward evening, as if everything conspired to make Petersburg society anxious and uneasy, a terrible piece of news was added.

A love disappointment, however, turned his thoughts to the church, and in 1624 he entered the Society of Jesus.

He was elected a foreign member of the Royal Society.

These have now nearly all, mainly through the work of the Pali Text Society, been published in Pali.

In 1822 the London Missionary Society appointed him superintendent of their South African stations.

In his later years his small alert figure was one of the most distinguished in the society of Berlin, and every honour open to a man of letters was conferred upon him.

In the 17th century, Thomas Shirley brought the natural gas of Wigan, in Shropshire, to the notice of the Royal Society.

The Royal Society awarded him the Copley medal in 5892, and selected him as Croonian lecturer in the following year, his subject being the position of pathology among the biological sciences; and in 1898 he delivered the second Huxley memorial lecture at Charing Cross Hospital.

But the Philharmonic Society adopted the Diapason Normal in 1896, and the military bands have not gone with it.

Though he received a medal from the Royal Society for his memoir of 1844, and the honorary degree of LL.D.

He was also a prime mover in the establishment of the Cambridge Astronomical Observatory, and in the founding of the Cambridge Philosophical Society.

Hertz himself gave an admirable account of the significance of his discoveries in a lecture on the relations between light and electricity, delivered before the German Society for the Advancement of Natural Science and Medicine at Heidelberg in September 1889.

In October 1791 Tone converted these ideas into practical policy by founding, in conjunction with Thomas Russell (1767-1803), Napper Tandy and others, the society of the "United Irishmen."

Several of the leading United Irishmen, including Reynolds and Hamilton Rowan, immediately fled the country; the papers of the United Irishmen were seized; and for a time the organization was broken up. Tone, who had not attended meetings of the society since May 1793, remained in Ireland till after the trial and suicide of Jackson in April 179.

In 1878 he was elected a Foreign Associate of the Royal Astronomical Society.

Thomson (Lord Kelvin) at a meeting of the Philosophical Society of Glasgow in 1854, because its greater flexibility renders it less likely to damage the insulating envelope during the manipulation of the cable.

Statistical Society (September 1872, March 1881); Report of a Committee appointed by the Treasury to investigate the causes of the increased cost of the Telegraphic Service, &c. (1875); Reports of the Postmaster-General for 1895, &c.; Journ.

The term " telephony " was first used by Philipp Reis of Friedrichsdorf, in a lecture delivered before the Physical Society of Frankfort in 1861.1 But, although this lecture and Reis's subsequent work received considerable notice, little progress was made until the subject was taken up between 1874 and 1876 by Alexander Graham Bell, a native of Edinburgh, then resident in Boston, Mass., U.S.A. Bell, like Reis, employed electricity for the reproduction of sounds; but he attacked the problem in a totally different manner.

Experiments very similar to these of Edison were made by Elisha Gray of Boston, Mass., and described by him in papers communicated to the American Electrical Society in 1875 and 1878.

The next three years he spent in the neighbourhood of Assisi in abject poverty and want, ministering to the lepers and the outcasts of society.

In the emperors absence, Raven.na, Rimini, Imola and Foril joined the league, which now called itself the Society of Venice, Lombardy, the March, Romagna and Alessandria.

The Ghibelline honestly believes that the Guelphs will reduce society to chaos.

All these forces were equally necessarythe revolutionists to keep up agitation and make government by bayonets impossible; the moderates to curb the impetuosity of the revolutionists and to present a scheme of society that was neither reactionary nor anarchical; the volunteers abroad to gain military experience; and the more peaceful exiles to spread the name of Italy among foreign peoples.

At Naples a trifling disturbance in September 1849, led to the lion oi arrest of a large number of persons connected with the Liberals Unitd Italiana, a society somewhat similar to the in Naples.

All who accepted the motto Unity, Independence and Victor Emmanuel were admitted into the society.

Both the king and his minister realized that Piedmont alone, even with the help of the National Society, could not expel Austria from Italy without foreign assistance.

It became clear that neither the influence of the regular clergy, of which the Society of Jesus is the most powerful embodiment, nor that of foreign clerical parties, which largely control the Peters Pence fund, would ever permit renunciation of the papal claim to temporal power.

They have to be interpreted in every age in relation to the state of society, the other motives or ideals with which they are associated, the kind of action they inspire, and the means through which they operate.

He was president of the Highland and Agricultural Society, the Society of Antiquaries and of the British Association.

Three of the seven poets were drinking in a garden when Firdousi approached, and wishing to get rid of him without rudeness, they informed him who they were, and told him that it was their custom to admit none to their society but such as could give proof of poetical talent.

Very many accepted these terms, rallied to the First Consul with more or less sincerity; and their return to France to strengthen the conservative elements in French society.