You can picture society as people bound together as companions — not scattered individuals but a body of people who live alongside each other, sharing rules, customs, and one another's company. At its root the word is about being WITH others.
From the word’s history
From Latin 'societas' (companionship, alliance, fellowship), from 'socius' (companion, ally, partner). The thread of 'companion / being together' runs through every sense, from a whole nation down to the simple pleasure of someone's company.
可以追到拉丁文 societas（夥伴關係、結盟），來自 socius（同伴、夥伴）。「同伴／在一起」這條線貫穿所有意思：大到一個國家的全體人民，小到單純享受某人的陪伴，都還是 socius 那個「伴」。
Online Etymology Dictionary (etymonline.com), 'society' / 'social'
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原始詞典資料7 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
societynoun/səˈsaɪ.ə.ti/
- 1
A long-standing group of people sharing cultural aspects such as language, dress, norms of behavior and artistic forms.
- This society has been known for centuries for its colorful clothing and tight-knit family structure.
- He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record.
- 2
A group of people who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest; an association or organization.
- It was then that they decided to found a society of didgeridoo-playing unicyclists.
- At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.[…]In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.
- 3
The sum total of all voluntary interrelations between individuals.
- The gap between Western and Eastern societies seems to be narrowing.
- Policing the relationship between government and business in a free society is difficult. Businesspeople have every right to lobby governments, and civil servants to take jobs in the private sector.
- 4
Companionship or association with one's fellows; friendly or intimate intercourse.
- The society of friends is one of life's great joys.
- This was Jo’s favorite refuge, and here she loved to retire with half a dozen russets and a nice book, to enjoy the quiet and the society of a pet rat who lived near by and didn’t mind her a particle.[…]
- 5
The people of one’s country or community taken as a whole.
- Our global society develops in fits and starts.
- If successful, Edison and Ford—in 1914—would move society away from the ever more expensive and then universally known killing hazards of gasoline cars:[…].
- 6
High society.
- Smith was first introduced into society at the Duchess of Grand Fenwick's annual rose garden party.
- "What a charming amusement for young people this is, Mr. Darcy! There is nothing like dancing after all. I consider it as one of the first refinements of polished society."
- 7
lawA number of people joined by mutual consent to deliberate, determine and act toward a common goal.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。