| society | an extended social group having a distinctive cultural and economic organization |
Tammany Hall
Tammany Society
Tammany | a political organization within the Democratic Party in New York City (late 's and early 's) seeking political control by corruption and bossism |
Hare Krishna
International Society for Krishna Consciousness
ISKCON | a religious sect founded in the United States in , based on Vedic scriptures, groups engage in joyful chanting of `Hare Krishna' and other mantras based on the name of the Hindu god Krishna, devotees usually wear saffron robes and practice vegetarianism and celibacy |
Society of Jesus
Jesuit order | a Roman Catholic order founded by Saint Ignatius of Loyola in to defend Catholicism against the Reformation and to do missionary work among the heathen, it is strongly committed to education and scholarship |
Religious Society of Friends
Society of Friends
Quakers | a Christian sect founded by George Fox about , commonly called Quakers |
Shakers
United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing | a celibate and communistic Christian sect in the United States |
club
social club
society guild
gild
lodge
order | a formal association of people with similar interests, he joined a golf club, they formed a small lunch society, men from the fraternal order will staff the soup kitchen today |
| secret society | a society that conceals its activities from nonmembers |
| Fabian Society | an association of British socialists who advocate gradual reforms within the law leading to democratic socialism |
| academy honorary society | an institution for the advancement of art or science or literature |
Royal Society
Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge | an honorary English society (formalized inand given a royal charter by Charles II in ) through which the British government has supported science |
| open society | a society that allows its members considerable freedom (as in a democracy), America's open society has made it an easy target for terrorists |
| tribal society | a society with the social organization of a tribe |
hunting and gathering tribe
hunting and gathering society | group that supports itself by hunting and fishing and by gathering wild fruits and vegetables, usually nomadic |
society high society
beau monde
smart set
bon ton | the fashionable elite |
| building society | British equivalent of United States savings and loan association |
| Society Islands | an island group of French Polynesia in the South Pacific to the east of Samoa |
charitable trust
public trust | a trust created for charitable or religious or educational or scientific purposes |
company
companionship
fellowship
society | the state of being with someone, he missed their company, he enjoyed the society of his friends |
| charitable | full of love and generosity, charitable to the poor, a charitable trust |
charitable
benevolent
kindly
sympathetic
good-hearted
openhearted
large-hearted | showing or motivated by sympathy and understanding and generosity, was charitable in his opinions of others, kindly criticism, a kindly act, sympathetic words, a large-hearted mentor |
| charitable | relating to or characterized by charity, a charitable foundation |