society

1 :  companionship or association with one's fellows :  friendly or intimate intercourse :  company

2 :  a voluntary association of individuals for common ends; especially :  an organized group working together or periodically meeting because of common interests, beliefs, or profession

3a :  an enduring and cooperating social group whose members have developed organized patterns of relationships through interaction with one anotherb :  a community, nation, or broad grouping of people having common traditions, institutions, and collective activities and interests

4a :  a part of a community that is a unit distinguishable by particular aims or standards of living or conduct :  a social circle or a group of social circles having a clearly marked identity <literary society>b :  a part of the community that sets itself apart as a leisure class and that regards itself as the arbiter of fashion and manners

5a :  a natural group of plants usually of a single species or habit within an associationb :  the progeny of a pair of insects when constituting a social unit (as a hive of bees); broadly :  an interdependent system of organisms or biological units