Definition of society:

part of speech: noun

A number of persons associated for a particular purpose; fellowship; the civilised body of mankind; the public; those persons in any community who usually associate together; a religious body.

Usage examples:

• While sitting at the farewell dinner of the Geographical Society the following day, Mr. Peary's second message, saying that my Eskimos declared I had not gone far out of sight of land, came to me. Frederick A. Cook in "My Attainment of the Pole".

• Betty, after that, went out into the streets, to see how things were, to meet other people, to find Tommy, to escape her own society Rose Macaulay in "The Furnace".

• Besides, the Church is, before all else, a society Marcus Dods in "The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I".

• I go but little into society Charles James Lever in "The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)".