As nouns the difference between social and dining
is that
social is a festive gathering to foster introductions while
dining is eating dinner as a social function.
As a adjective social
is being extroverted or outgoing.
As a verb dining is
.
social Noun
( en noun)
A festive gathering to foster introductions.
- They organized a social at the dance club to get people to know each other.
(Canadian Prairies) A dance held to raise money for a couple to be married.
(British, colloquial) for its employees.
- Fred hated going down to the social to sign on.
(US, colloquial)
- What's your social ?
(dated, Ireland) A dinner dance event, usually held annually by a company or sporting club.
Adjective
( en adjective)
Being extroverted or outgoing.
- James is a very social guy; he knows lots of people.
Of or relating to society.
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- Teresa feels uncomfortable in certain social situations.
- Unemployment is a social problem.
(Internet) Relating to social media or social networks.
- social gaming
(rare) Relating to a nation's allies]] (compare [[w:Social War, the Social War)
(botany, zoology) Cooperating or growing in groups.
- a social insect
Antonyms
* antisocial
* unsocial
* asocial
Derived terms
* biosocial
* parasocial
* presocial
* pseudosocial
* psychosocial
* quasisocial
* semisocial
* social butterfly
* social capital
* social class
* social climber
* social cohesion
* social collaboration
* social collapse
* social commentary
* social conscience
* social conservative
* social construct
* social democrat
* social entrepreneurship
* social function
* social grace
* social ladder
* social life
* social media
* social mobility
* social network
* social outcast
* social psychology
* social safety net
* social security
* social science
* social status
* social studies
* social trading
* social work
* social worker
* sociable
* socialist
* subsocial
Related terms
* sociality
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dining English
Noun
Eating dinner as a social function.
* 1869 , The XIX Century (volume 1, page 6)
- For my own part I preferred to remain with the ship, and I am now glad that I did so, for the welcome we received at Havana; the cheering crowds upon the quay; the friends we met and made; the dinings in and dinings out
Entertaining someone to dinner.
Related terms
* dining car
* dining room
* dining table
Verb
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