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SOCIAL GROUP
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
People sharing some social relation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("social group" is a kind of...):
group; grouping (any number of entities (members) considered as a unit)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "social group"):
wing (a group within a political party or legislature or other organization that holds distinct views or has a particular function)
Jewry (Jews collectively)
front; movement; social movement (a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals)
folk; tribe (a social division of (usually preliterate) people)
moiety (one of two basic subdivisions of a tribe)
form of government; political system (the members of a social organization who are in power)
nonalignment; nonalinement (people (or countries) who are not aligned with other people (or countries) in a pact or treaty)
subculture (a social group within a national culture that has distinctive patterns of behavior and beliefs)
gangdom; gangland; organized crime (underworld organizations)
band; circle; lot; set (an unofficial association of people or groups)
revolving door (an organization or institution with a high rate of turnover of personnel or membership)
platoon (a group of persons who are engaged in a common activity)
force (a group of people having the power of effective action)
phylum ((linguistics) a large group of languages that are historically related)
organisation; organization (a group of people who work together)
congregation; faithful; fold (a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church)
assemblage; gathering (a group of persons together in one place)
fringe (a social group holding marginal or extreme views)
kith (your friends and acquaintances)
clan; kin; kin group; kindred; kinship group; tribe (group of people related by blood or marriage)
interest; interest group ((usually plural) a social group whose members control some field of activity and who have common aims)
sector (a social group that forms part of the society or the economy)
minority (a group of people who differ racially or politically from a larger group of which it is a part)
society (an extended social group having a distinctive cultural and economic organization)
body (a group of persons associated by some common tie or occupation and regarded as an entity)
