Society vs. Club — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Society and Club
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Society
A society is a group of individuals involved in persistent social interaction, or a large social group sharing the same spatial or social territory, typically subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations. Societies are characterized by patterns of relationships (social relations) between individuals who share a distinctive culture and institutions; a given society may be described as the sum total of such relationships among its constituent of members.
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Club
An association dedicated to a particular interest or activity
I belong to a photographic club
The club secretary
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Society
The aggregate of people living together in a more or less ordered community
Drugs, crime, and other dangers to society
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Club
An organization constituted to play matches in a particular sport
A football club
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Society
An organization or club formed for a particular purpose or activity
The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
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Club
A nightclub playing fashionable dance music
The club scene
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Society
The situation of being in the company of other people
She shunned the society of others
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Club
A heavy stick with a thick end, used as a weapon
They beat him with a wooden club
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Society
The totality of people regarded as forming a community of interdependent individuals
Working for the benefit of society.
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Club
One of the four suits in a conventional pack of playing cards, denoted by a black trefoil.
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Society
A group of people broadly distinguished from other groups by mutual interests, participation in characteristic relationships, shared institutions, and a common culture
Rural society.
Literary society.
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Club
Combine with others so as to collect a sum of money for a particular purpose
Friends and colleagues clubbed together to buy him a present
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Society
An organization or association of persons engaged in a common profession, activity, or interest
A folklore society.
A society of bird watchers.
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Club
Go out to nightclubs
She enjoys going clubbing in Oxford
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Society
The wealthy, socially dominant members of a community. Also called high society.
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Club
Beat (a person or animal) with a club or similar implement
The islanders clubbed whales to death
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Society
Companionship; company
Enjoys the society of friends and family members.
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Club
A stout heavy stick, usually thicker at one end, suitable for use as a weapon; a cudgel.
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Society
(Biology) A colony or community of organisms, usually of the same species
An insect society.
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Club
An implement used in some games to drive a ball, especially a stick with a protruding head used in golf.
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Society
(countable) A long-standing group of people sharing cultural aspects such as language, dress, norms of behavior and artistic forms.
This society has been known for centuries for its colorful clothing and tight-knit family structure.
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Club
Something resembling a club.
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Society
(countable) A group of people who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest; an association or organization.
It was then that they decided to found a society of didgeridoo-playing unicyclists.
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Club
A black figure shaped like a trefoil or clover leaf on certain playing cards.
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Society
(countable) The sum total of all voluntary interrelations between individuals.
The gap between Western and Eastern societies seems to be narrowing.
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Club
A playing card with this figure.
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Society
(uncountable) The people of one’s country or community taken as a whole.
Our global society develops in fits and starts.
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Club
Clubs (used with a sing. or pl. verb) The suit of cards represented by this figure.
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Society
(uncountable) High society.
Smith was first introduced into society at the Duchess of Grand Fenwick's annual rose garden party.
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Club
A group of people organized for a common purpose, especially a group that meets regularly
A garden club.
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Society
A number of people joined by mutual consent to deliberate, determine and act toward a common goal.
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Club
The building, room, or other facility used for the meetings of an organized group.
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Society
The relationship of men to one another when associated in any way; companionship; fellowship; company.
There is society where none intrudesBy the deep sea, and music in its roar.
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Club
(Sports) An athletic team or organization.
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Society
Connection; participation; partnership.
The meanest of the people and such as have the least society with the acts and crimes of kings.
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Club
A nightclub.
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Society
A number of persons associated for any temporary or permanent object; an association for mutual or joint usefulness, pleasure, or profit; a social union; a partnership; as, a missionary society.
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Club
To strike or beat with a club or similar implement.
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Society
The persons, collectively considered, who live in any region or at any period; any community of individuals who are united together by a common bond of nearness or intercourse; those who recognize each other as associates, friends, and acquaintances.
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Club
To use (a firearm) as a club by holding the barrel and hitting with the butt end.
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Society
Specifically, the more cultivated portion of any community in its social relations and influences; those who mutually give receive formal entertainments.
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Club
To gather or combine (hair, for example) into a clublike mass.
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Society
An extended social group having a distinctive cultural and economic organization
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Club
To contribute (money or resources) to a joint or common purpose.
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Society
A formal association of people with similar interests;
He joined a golf club
They formed a small lunch society
Men from the fraternal order will staff the soup kitchen today
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Club
To join or combine for a common purpose; form a club.
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Society
The state of being with someone;
He missed their company
He enjoyed the society of his friends
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Club
To go to or frequent nightclubs
Was out all night clubbing.
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Society
The fashionable elite
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Club
An association of members joining together for some common purpose, especially sports or recreation.
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Club
(archaic) The fees associated with belonging to such a club.
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Club
A heavy object, often a kind of stick, intended for use as a bludgeoning weapon or a plaything.
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Club
An implement to hit the ball in certain ball games, such as golf.
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Club
A joint charge of expense, or any person's share of it; a contribution to a common fund.
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Club
An establishment that provides staged entertainment, often with food and drink, such as a nightclub.
She was sitting in a jazz club, sipping wine and listening to a bass player's solo.
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Club
A black clover shape (♣), one of the four symbols used to mark the suits of playing cards.
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Club
A playing card marked with such a symbol.
I've got only one club in my hand.
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Club
(humorous) Any set of people with a shared characteristic.
You also hate Night Court?
Join the club.
Michael stood you up?
Welcome to the club.
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Club
A club sandwich.
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Club
The slice of bread in the middle of a club sandwich.
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Club
(transitive) To hit with a club.
He clubbed the poor dog.
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Club
(intransitive) To join together to form a group.
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Club
To combine into a club-shaped mass.
A medical condition with clubbing of the fingers and toes
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Club
(intransitive) To go to nightclubs.
We went clubbing in Ibiza.
When I was younger, I used to go clubbing almost every night.
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Club
(intransitive) To pay an equal or proportionate share of a common charge or expense.
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Club
(transitive) To raise, or defray, by a proportional assessment.
To club the expense
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Club
(nautical) To drift in a current with an anchor out.
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Club
(military) To throw, or allow to fall, into confusion.
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Club
(transitive) To unite, or contribute, for the accomplishment of a common end.
To club exertions
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Club
To turn the breech of (a musket) uppermost, so as to use it as a club.
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Club
A heavy staff of wood, usually tapering, and wielded with the hand; a weapon; a cudgel.
But make you ready your stiff bats and clubs;Rome and her rats are at the point of battle.
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Club
Any card of the suit of cards having a figure like the trefoil or clover leaf. (pl.) The suit of cards having such figure.
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Club
An association of persons for the promotion of some common object, as literature, science, politics, good fellowship, etc.; esp. an association supported by equal assessments or contributions of the members.
They talkedAt wine, in clubs, of art, of politics.
He [Goldsmith] was one of the nine original members of that celebrated fraternity which has sometimes been called the Literary Club, but which has always disclaimed that epithet, and still glories in the simple name of the Club.
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Club
A joint charge of expense, or any person's share of it; a contribution to a common fund.
They laid down the club.
We dined at a French house, but paid ten shillings for our part of the club.
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Club
To beat with a club.
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Club
To throw, or allow to fall, into confusion.
To club a battalion implies a temporary inability in the commanding officer to restore any given body of men to their natural front in line or column.
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Club
To unite, or contribute, for the accomplishment of a common end; as, to club exertions.
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Club
To raise, or defray, by a proportional assesment; as, to club the expense.
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Club
To form a club; to combine for the promotion of some common object; to unite.
Till grosser atoms, tumbling in the streamOf fancy, madly met, and clubbed into a dream.
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Club
To pay on equal or proportionate share of a common charge or expense; to pay for something by contribution.
The owl, the raven, and the bat,Clubbed for a feather to his hat.
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Club
To drift in a current with an anchor out.
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Club
A team of professional baseball players who play and travel together;
Each club played six home games with teams in its own division
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Club
A formal association of people with similar interests;
He joined a golf club
They formed a small lunch society
Men from the fraternal order will staff the soup kitchen today
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Club
Stout stick that is larger at one end;
He carried a club in self defense
He felt as if he had been hit with a club
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Club
A building occupied by a club;
The clubhouse needed a new roof
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Club
Golf equipment used by a golfer to hit a golf ball
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Club
A playing card in the minor suit of clubs (having one or more black trefoils on it);
He led a small club
Clubs were trumps
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Club
A spot that is open late at night and that provides entertainment (as singers or dancers) as well as dancing and food and drink;
Don't expect a good meal at a cabaret
The gossip columnist got his information by visiting nightclubs every night
He played the drums at a jazz club
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Club
Unite with a common purpose;
The two men clubbed together
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Club
Gather and spend time together;
They always club together
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Club
Strike with a club or a bludgeon
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