The meaning of SOCIAL is marked by or passed in pleasant companionship with friends or associates. How to use social in a sentence.

When you're being social, you're everyone's friend. Go to a social, or mixer, and you might make a lot of new friends. Stand in the corner pouting, however, and you're being anti-social. Humans are described as social beings — ones that tend to move or live in groups together, like penguins!

SOCIAL meaning: 1. relating to activities in which you meet and spend time with other people and that happen during…. Learn more.

From Middle French social, from Latin sociālis (“of or belonging to a companion or companionship or association, social”), from socius (“a companion, fellow, partner, associate, ally”), from sequor (“follow”).

These adjectives mean inclined to, marked by, or passed in friendly companionship with others: a friendly social gathering; a companionable colleague; a cheery, convivial disposition; a gregarious person who avoids solitude; a sociable conversation.

Social definition: Of or relating to a variety of a language that is used by a group of people sharing some characteristic, such as ethnicity or income level, and differs in pronunciation, grammar, or vocabulary from the standard variety.

There are 35 meanings listed in OED's entry for the word social, six of which are labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.

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