Noun

(lb) A long-standing group of people sharing cultural aspects such as language, dress, norms of behavior and artistic forms.

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*{{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April, author=John T. Jost

, volume=100, issue=2, page=162, magazine=(American Scientist) , title= Social Justice: Is It in Our Nature (and Our Future)? , passage=He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record.}}

(lb) A group of people who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest; an association or organization.

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*:At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society , of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.

(lb) The sum total of all voluntary interrelations between individuals.

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*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist), author=Schumpeter

, title= Cronies and capitols , passage=Policing the relationship between government and business in a free society is difficult. Businesspeople have every right to lobby governments, and civil servants to take jobs in the private sector.}}

(lb) The people of one’s country or community taken as a whole.

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*{{quote-book, year=2006, author=(Edwin Black), chapter=1, title= Internal Combustion

, passage=If successful, Edison and Ford—in 1914—would move society away from the ever more expensive and then universally known killing hazards of gasoline cars:

*{{quote-magazine, date=2012-01, author=Steven Sloman

, volume=100, issue=1, page=74, magazine=(American Scientist) , title= The Battle Between Intuition and Deliberation , passage=Libertarian paternalism is the view that, because the way options are presented to citizens affects what they choose, society should present options in a way that “nudges” our intuitive selves to make choices that are more consistent with what our more deliberative selves would have chosen if they were in control.}}

(lb) High society.

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A number of people joined by mutual consent to deliberate, determine and act toward a common goal.

Noun

(wikipedia area)

(mathematics) A measure of the extent of a surface; it is measured in square units.

A particular geographic region.

Any particular extent of surface, especially an empty or unused extent.

Figuratively, any extent, scope or range of an object or concept.

* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=September-October, author= Rob Dorit

, magazine=(American Scientist), title= Making Life from Scratch , passage=Today, a new area of research that similarly aims to mimic a complex biological phenomenon—life itself—is taking off. Synthetic biology, a seductive experimental subfield in the life sciences, seems tantalizingly to promise custom-designed life created in the laboratory.}}

(British) An open space, below ground level, between the front of a house and the pavement.

(Charles Dickens)

(soccer) Penalty box; penalty area.

* {{quote-news, year=2010, date=December 29, author=Mark Vesty, work=BBC

, title= Wigan 2-2 Arsenal , passage=Bendtner's goal-bound shot was well saved by goalkeeper Ali Al Habsi but fell to Arsahvin on the edge of the area and the Russian swivelled, shaped his body and angled a sumptuous volley into the corner.}}

(slang) Genitals.