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social | self |

As a noun social

is a festive gathering to foster introductions.

As an adjective social

is being extroverted or outgoing.

As a proper noun self is

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social

English

(wikipedia 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.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2012-01
    • , author=Donald Worster , title=A Drier and Hotter Future , volume=100, issue=1, page=70 , magazine= citation , passage=Phoenix and Lubbock are both caught in severe drought, and it is going to get much worse. We may see many such [dust] storms in the decades ahead, along with species extinctions, radical disturbance of ecosystems, and intensified social conflict over land and water. Welcome to the Anthropocene, the epoch when humans have become a major geological and climatic force.}}
    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

    Statistics

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    External links

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    self

    English

    (wikipedia self)

    Pronoun

    (English Pronouns)
  • (obsolete) Himself, herself, itself, themselves; that specific (person mentioned).
    • This argument was put forward by the defendant self .
  • Myself.
    • I made out a cheque, payable to self , which cheered me up somewhat.

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • The subject of one's own experience of phenomena: perception, emotions, thoughts.
  • *
  • *:Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self . It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.
  • An individual person as the object of his own reflective consciousness (plural selves).
  • * (1788-1856)
  • *:The self , the I, is recognized in every act of intelligence as the subject to which that act belongs. It is I that perceive, I that imagine, I that remember, I that attend, I that compare, I that feel, I that will, I that am conscious.
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    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=The preposterous altruism too!
  • *{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= Katrina G. Claw
    • , title= Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm , volume=101, issue=3, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=In plants, the ability to recognize self from nonself plays an important role in fertilization, because self-fertilization will result in less diverse offspring than fertilization with pollen from another individual.}}
  • (lb) A seedling produced by self-pollination (plural selfs).

    • Derived terms

    * selfie

    Related terms

    * selfdom * selfhood * selfish * selfless * selflike * selfsame * myself, ourselves, yourself, thyself, yourselves, himself, herself, itself, themselves, oneself, one's self

    See also

    * self- * person * I * ego

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (botany) To fertilise by the same individual; to self-fertilise or self-pollinate.
  • (botany) To fertilise by the same strain; to inbreed.

    • Antonyms

    * outcross

    Adjective

  • (obsolete) same
  • * 1605 , William Shakespeare, King Lear , I.i:
    • I am made of that self mettle as my sister.
  • * Sir Walter Raleigh
    • on these self hills
  • * Dryden
    • At that self moment enters Palamon.

    External links

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    Anagrams

    * English nouns with irregular plurals ----