"subsociety" meaning in All languages combined

See subsociety on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: subsocieties [plural]
Etymology: From sub- + society. Etymology templates: {{af|en|sub-|society}} sub- + society Head templates: {{en-noun}} subsociety (plural subsocieties)
  1. A society making up part of a larger society.

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "sub-",
        "3": "society"
      },
      "expansion": "sub- + society",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From sub- + society.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "subsocieties",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "subsociety (plural subsocieties)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms prefixed with sub-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1975, Ruth S. Cavan, Jordan T. Cavan, “Cultural Patterns, Functions, and Dysfunctions of Endogamy and Intermarriage”, in Ruth E. Albrecht, E. Wilbur Bock, compilers, Encounter: Love, Marriage, and Family, 2nd edition, Boston, Mass.: Holbrook Press, Inc., →ISBN, page 181:",
          "text": "In some circumstances, children of mixed parentage form their own subsociety, as is true in India and adjacent countries where there are fairly large groups of Euro-Asians.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1982 May 31, Niccolo Tucci, “'THE WHOLE PROBLEM OF COURAGE NEEDS A REDIFINITION'; I was made livid with anger when I read in the newspaper the Green Berets' complaint that their \"bad boys\" are giving them a \"bad image.\"”, in The New York Times:",
          "text": "In fact, culture is nothing but the willful acquisition of vulnerability. This is exactly the reason it is derided by the Green Berets and their like in other totalitarian societies or subsocieties.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A society making up part of a larger society."
      ],
      "id": "en-subsociety-en-noun-aFkw7KiO"
    }
  ],
  "word": "subsociety"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "sub-",
        "3": "society"
      },
      "expansion": "sub- + society",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From sub- + society.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "subsocieties",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "subsociety (plural subsocieties)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms prefixed with sub-",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1975, Ruth S. Cavan, Jordan T. Cavan, “Cultural Patterns, Functions, and Dysfunctions of Endogamy and Intermarriage”, in Ruth E. Albrecht, E. Wilbur Bock, compilers, Encounter: Love, Marriage, and Family, 2nd edition, Boston, Mass.: Holbrook Press, Inc., →ISBN, page 181:",
          "text": "In some circumstances, children of mixed parentage form their own subsociety, as is true in India and adjacent countries where there are fairly large groups of Euro-Asians.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1982 May 31, Niccolo Tucci, “'THE WHOLE PROBLEM OF COURAGE NEEDS A REDIFINITION'; I was made livid with anger when I read in the newspaper the Green Berets' complaint that their \"bad boys\" are giving them a \"bad image.\"”, in The New York Times:",
          "text": "In fact, culture is nothing but the willful acquisition of vulnerability. This is exactly the reason it is derided by the Green Berets and their like in other totalitarian societies or subsocieties.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A society making up part of a larger society."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "subsociety"
}

Download raw JSONL data for subsociety meaning in All languages combined (1.7kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-15 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (8a39820 and 4401a4c). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.