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OPEN SOCIETY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A society that allows its members considerable freedom (as in a democracy)
Example:
America's open society has made it an easy target for terrorists
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("open society" is a kind of...):
society (an extended social group having a distinctive cultural and economic organization)