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Plural of society

regular plural

The plural of society is societies.

Forms of society

Singularsociety /səˈsaɪ.ə.ti/
Pluralsocieties
Countablecountable and uncountable

Societies in a sentence

  • He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record.2012 March-April, John T. Jost, “Social Justice: Is It in Our Nature (and Our Future)?”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page...
  • The gap between Western and Eastern societies seems to be narrowing.
  • Though Islam allows polygamy, it is frowned upon in many contemporary Muslim societies.From the entry polygamy
  • Under Christianization, many converted societies transformed their pagan deities into saints.From the entry pagan
  • All societies have three key interlocking elements: Religion, economics, and politics.From the entry interlocking

Meaning of society

  1. noun A long-standing group of people sharing cultural aspects such as language, dress, norms of behavior and artistic forms.
  2. noun A group of people who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest; an association or organization.
  3. noun The sum total of all voluntary interrelations between individuals.

Full definition of society

Questions about the plural of society

What is the plural of society?
The plural of society is societies.
Is society countable?
Society is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: society (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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