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🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

社会

Pronunciation / Transliteration: shè huì

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Gesellschaft/ɡəˈzɛl.ʃaft/
nounCEFR B1 (Intermediate)Top #450 frequency
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"科技对现代社会产生了巨大的影响。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    An organized group of persons associated together for religious, benevolent, cultural, scientific, political, patriotic, or other purposes.

    "Die Gesellschaft fördert Kunst und Kultur in der Region."
  2. 2

    The aggregate of people living together in a more or less ordered community.

    "Modern society faces complex technological and environmental challenges."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from Middle High German geselle (companion, comrade) combined with the suffix -schaft. Historically developed from terms denoting a group of companions sharing a common life or enterprise into the modern sociological concept of society.

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