Merriam-Webster's Collegiate® Dictionary, 11th Edition
SOCIETY
I. noun (plural -ties) see: social
Date: 1531
companionship or association with one's fellows ; friendly or intimate intercourse ; company , a voluntary association of individuals for common ends,
3. an enduring and cooperating social group whose members have developed organized patterns of relationships through interaction with one another, a community, nation, or broad grouping of people having common traditions, institutions, and collective activities and interests,
4. a part of a community that is a unit distinguishable by particular aims or standards of living or conduct ; a social circle or a group of social circles having a clearly marked identity , a part of the community that sets itself apart as a leisure class and that regards itself as the arbiter of fashion and manners,
5. a natural group of plants usually of a single species or habit within an association, the progeny of a pair of insects when constituting a social unit (as a hive of bees),
II. adjective
Date: 1693
of, relating to, or typical of fashionable society