social

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1. social - Noun

2. social - Adjective

3. social - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Of or pertaining to society; relating to men living in society, or to the public as an aggregate body; as, social interest or concerns; social pleasure; social benefits; social happiness; social duties.

Ready or disposed to mix in friendly converse; companionable; sociable; as, a social person.

Consisting in union or mutual intercourse.

Naturally growing in groups or masses; -- said of many individual plants of the same species.

Living in communities consisting of males, females, and neuters, as do ants and most bees.

Forming compound groups or colonies by budding from basal processes or stolons; as, the social ascidians.

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First, utopianism is probably a necessary social device for generating the superhuman efforts without which no major revolution is achieved. Eric Hobsbawm

People always have been the foolish victims of deception and self-deception in politics, and they always will be until they have learnt to seek out the interests of some class or other behind all moral, religious, political and social phrases, declarations and promises. Vladimir Lenin

Mothers are a biological necessity; fathers are a social invention. Margaret Mead

I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all. Alexis de Tocqueville

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party. Dag Hammarskjöld

Social good is what brings peace to family and society. Traditional Proverb

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