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  1. n. A collection of humans or animals, who share certain characteristics, interact with one another, accept expectations and obligations as members of the group, and share a common identity.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. people sharing some social relation

Examples

  • “The clergy gives him a model ideal-type or pure case of a social group which, although it draws its postulants from all classes and nations, is free of all complicating overlapping memberships.”

    Simon & Schuster: Conflict and The Web of Group-Affiliations

  • “An eminent sociologist of communication networks, Professor Ron Burt, described opinion leaders as “people on the edge”: opinion leaders have a certain degree of cosmopoliteness in that they bring new ideas from outside their social group to its members.”

    Simon & Schuster: Diffusion of Innovations

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hypernyms (2)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. grouping
  1. group

hyponyms (44)

Words that are more specific

  1. sector
  2. body
  3. congregation
  4. minority
  5. nonalignment
  6. social movement
  7. set
  8. revolving door
  1. kin group
  2. circle
  3. platoon
  4. kinship group
  5. gangdom
  6. phylum
  7. organization
  8. band
  1. interest
  2. movement
  3. gathering
  4. kin
  5. subculture
  6. gangland
  7. wing
  8. nonalinement
  1. society
  2. folk
  3. faithful
  4. tribe
  5. organisation
  6. interest group
  7. Jewry
  8. front
  1. form of government
  2. fold
  3. assemblage
  4. organized crime
  5. clan
  6. moiety
  7. lot
  8. kindred
  1. kith
  2. force
  3. political system
  4. fringe

reverse dictionary (102)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. family
  2. clan
  3. society
  4. gang
  5. subculture
  6. interest
  7. interest group
  8. sector
  9. caste
  10. fringe
  11. elite
  12. epiphenomenon
  13. group-mind
  14. ascidioidea
  15. mass sociogenic illness
  16. hate speech
  17. exonym
  18. type
  19. member
  20. network army
  1. fellow member
  2. ethic
  3. lunatic fringe
  4. luncheon
  5. group-type
  6. group-will
  7. ghetto
  8. monascidiæ
  9. sociales
  10. antisociality
  11. confederalist
  12. Hartalda
  13. case study
  14. ideology
  15. mores
  16. Beat Generation
  17. offshoot
  18. A list
  19. hate crime
  20. superorganism
  1. totem
  2. comedy of manners
  3. angry young man
  4. alienated
  5. value orientation
  6. value-system
  7. values
  8. hypergamy
  9. Pankhurst
  10. think tank
  11. mobility
  12. autonym
  13. dysfunction
  14. bourgeoisie
  15. dropout
  16. read
  17. isolate
  18. roman fleuve
  19. roots
  20. social stratification
  1. stratification
  2. unit
  3. vertical
  4. upper crust
  5. assembly
  6. convention
  7. Churchill
  8. manner
  9. vernacular
  10. Bolshevik
  11. generation
  12. gentility
  13. Shaw
  14. probation
  15. individualism
  16. disfunction
  17. eidos
  18. family unit
  19. hegemony
  20. inductee
  1. jati
  2. kalashnikov culture
  3. marginalisation
  4. marginalization
  5. moral principle
  6. policy
  7. social unit
  8. absorption
  9. assimilation
  10. culture
  11. élite
  12. elite group
  13. intermarry
  14. ménage
  15. order
  16. catallactidæ
  17. cosmopolitan
  18. anthroposociologist
  19. colony
  20. cult-society
  1. metasocial
  2. phragmocyttares

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