social
/ˈsoʊ.ʃəl/ noun C2- A festive gathering to foster introductions. · They organized a social at the dance club to help people get to know one another.
- A dance held to raise money, often held for a couple to be married.
- A social media account; the username or handle thereof, or a link thereto. · Also check out some other experts in this topic — their socials are in the pinned comment below.
Plural socials
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Around the table reigned that noisy hilarity which usually prevails at such a time among people sufficiently free from the demands of social position not to feel the trammels of etiquette.
When there is a social to be got up or a church tea or anything else to raise money the women have to turn to and do the work.
The tiger, whose nature teaches him to delight in shedding blood, needs but the sense of smell to show him when his prey is within his reach, and by following this instinct he is enabled to measure the leap necessary to permit him to spring on his victim; but man, on the contrary, loathes the idea of blood—it is not alone that the laws of social life inspire him with a shrinking dread of taking life; his natural construction and physiological formation——”
Everyone, from the highest to the lowest degree, has his place on the social ladder, and is beset by stormy passions and conflicting interests, as in Descartes’ theory of pressure and impulsion.
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