{
    "term": "society",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "people in general, living together in communities",
            "sensetop": "in society",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "She believes that the arts benefit **society as a whole**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Racism exists at all levels of society."
                },
                {
                    "text": "These children have grown up to be useful and productive **members of society**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Every **section of society** must have access to education."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They carried out research into the roles of men and women in today’s society.",
                    "contextForm": "in society"
                },
                {
                    "text": "A person's job is one of the factors that determines their place in society."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He felt isolated from the rest of society."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Health standards have risen in society at large."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Officers were drawn largely from the top echelons of society."
                },
                {
                    "text": "One of the pillars of society must be that everyone has access to the legal system."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Prisoners often have problems fitting into society on their release."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She devoted herself to helping the outcasts of society."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The civil war tore apart the fabric of society."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The clinic deals with a wide cross-section of society."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The research examines minorities and their relation to society as a whole."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We help offenders to become productive members of society."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Years of high unemployment have left society deeply divided."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["larger", "wider", "entire"],
                "verb + society": ["build", "create", "change"],
                "society + verb": ["be based on something", "become"],
                "preposition": ["in (a) society", "within (a) society"],
                "phrases": [
                    "a cross-section of society",
                    "the fabric of society",
                    "the higher echelons of society"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "a particular community of people who share the same customs, laws, etc.",
            "sensetop": "in a society",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "**modern** industrial **societies**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "demand created by a consumer society"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Can Britain ever be a classless society?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "They were discussing the problems of Western society."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We **live in a society** that is obsessed with how people look.",
                    "contextForm": "in a society"
                },
                {
                    "text": "These rights are necessary in a **democratic society**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Our disposable society must be encouraged to recycle."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Such language would not be used in polite society."
                },
                {
                    "text": "US society is becoming more unequal."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We live in a society dominated by men."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the celebration of a culturally diverse society"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the class structure of British society"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the consumerist values of the affluent society"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the division of labour in an advanced capitalist society"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the path to becoming a secular society"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Singapore has a delicately balanced multicultural society."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["People in society"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["larger", "wider", "entire"],
                "verb + society": ["build", "create", "change"],
                "society + verb": ["be based on something", "become"],
                "preposition": ["in (a) society", "within (a) society"],
                "phrases": [
                    "a cross-section of society",
                    "the fabric of society",
                    "the higher echelons of society"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "a group of people who join together for a particular purpose",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a member of the drama society"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the American Society of Newspaper Editors"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I joined the local Genealogy Society."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He is a member of numerous professional societies."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She belongs to the historical society."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She was active in the Society for Women's Suffrage."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He made few friends and joined few clubs or societies."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Local law societies were unreceptive to the idea."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She joined the Cranbrook Players, the local amateur dramatic society."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The campaign was launched by the National Deaf Children's Society."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["debating", "drama", "dramatic"],
                "verb + society": ["belong to", "become a member of", "join"],
                "preposition": ["in a/​the society", "society for", "society of"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "the group of people in a country who are fashionable, rich and powerful",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Their daughter married into **high society**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a society wedding"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She moved in high society and had many literary friends."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She was a poor Irish girl who married into New York society."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["larger", "wider", "entire"],
                "verb + society": ["build", "create", "change"],
                "society + verb": ["be based on something", "become"],
                "preposition": ["in (a) society", "within (a) society"],
                "phrases": [
                    "a cross-section of society",
                    "the fabric of society",
                    "the higher echelons of society"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 5,
            "definition": "the state of being with other people",
            "labels": "(formal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He was a solitary man who avoided the society of others."
                }
            ],
            "synonyms": "company"
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/səˈsaɪəti/",
                "audio": "so/society/society__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/səˈsaɪəti/",
                "audio": "so/society/society__us_3.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "mid 16th cent. (in the sense ‘companionship, friendly association with others’): from French société, from Latin societas, from socius ‘companion’."
}