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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, 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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, 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

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The aggregate of past events.

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, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=With some of it on the south and more of it on the north of the great main thoroughfare that connects Aldgate and the East India Docks, St.?Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London.}}

* {{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April, author=(Jan Sapp), volume=100, issue=2, page=164

, magazine=(American Scientist) , title= Race Finished , passage=Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race. The word conjures up a mixture of associations—culture, ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution. But is the tragic history of efforts to define groups of people by race really a matter of the misuse of science, the abuse of a valid biological concept?}}

The branch of knowledge that studies the past; the assessment of notable events.

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, volume=189, issue=13, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Lessons of past cast shadows over Syria , passage=History and experience act as a filter that can distort as much as elucidate. It is largely forgotten now, overlooked in the one-line description of Tony Blair and George W Bush as the men who lied about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, but there was a wider context to their conviction.}}

A set of events involving an entity.

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A record or narrative description of past events.

A list of past and continuing medical conditions of an individual or family.

A record of previous user events, especially of visited web pages in a browser.

(informal) Something that no longer exists or is no longer relevant.

Shared experience or interaction.

There is too much history between them for them to split up now.

He has had a lot of history with the police.