society

Noun

• the fashionable elite

• the state of being with someone
  • he missed their company
    
  • he enjoyed the society of his friends
    

• a formal association of people with similar interests
  • he joined a golf club
    
  • they formed a small lunch society
    
  • men from the fraternal order will staff the soup kitchen today
    

• an extended social group having a distinctive cultural and economic organization

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  high society , beau monde , smart set , bon ton , company , companionship , fellowship , club , social club , guild , gild , lodge , order