| socage | (noun) land tenure by agricultural service or payment of rent; not burdened with military service | - |
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| soccer | (noun) a football game in which two teams of 11 players try to kick or head a ball into the opponents' goal | Synonyms: association football |
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| sociability | (noun) the relative tendency or disposition to be sociable or associate with one's fellows | Synonyms: sociableness |
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| sociable | (noun) a party of people assembled to promote sociability and communal activity | Synonyms: mixer, social |
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| sociableness | (noun) the relative tendency or disposition to be sociable or associate with one's fellows | Synonyms: sociability |
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| social | (noun) a party of people assembled to promote sociability and communal activity | Synonyms: mixer, sociable |
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| socialisation | (noun) the adoption of the behavior patterns of the surrounding culture | Synonyms: acculturation, enculturation, socialization |
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| (noun) the act of meeting for social purposes | Synonyms: socialising, socialization, socializing |
| (noun) the action of establishing on a socialist basis | Synonyms: socialization |
| socialiser | (noun) a person who takes part in social activities | Synonyms: socializer |
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| socialising | (noun) the act of meeting for social purposes | Synonyms: socialisation, socialization, socializing |
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| socialism | (noun) a political theory advocating state ownership of industry | - |
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| (noun) an economic system based on state ownership of capital | Synonyms: socialist economy |
| socialist | (noun) a political advocate of socialism | - |
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| socialite | (noun) a socially prominent person | - |
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| sociality | (noun) the tendency to associate with others and to form social groups | - |
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| socialization | (noun) the adoption of the behavior patterns of the surrounding culture | Synonyms: acculturation, enculturation, socialisation |
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| (noun) the act of meeting for social purposes | Synonyms: socialisation, socialising, socializing |
| (noun) the action of establishing on a socialist basis | Synonyms: socialisation |
| socializer | (noun) a person who takes part in social activities | Synonyms: socialiser |
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| socializing | (noun) the act of meeting for social purposes | Synonyms: socialisation, socialising, socialization |
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| society | (noun) an extended social group having a distinctive cultural and economic organization | - |
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| (noun) a formal association of people with similar interests | Synonyms: club, gild, guild, lodge, order, social club |
| (noun) the fashionable elite | Synonyms: beau monde, bon ton, high society, smart set |
| (noun) the state of being with someone | Synonyms: companionship, company, fellowship |
| sociobiologist | (noun) a biologist who studies the biological determinants of social behavior | - |
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| sociobiology | (noun) the branch of biology that conducts comparative studies of the social organization of animals (including human beings) with regard to its evolutionary history | - |
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| sociolinguist | (noun) a linguist who studies the social and cultural factors that influence linguistic communication | - |
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| sociolinguistics | (noun) the study of language in relation to its sociocultural context | - |
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| sociologist | (noun) a social scientist who studies the institutions and development of human society | - |
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| sociology | (noun) the study and classification of human societies | - |
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| sociometry | (noun) the quantitative study of social relationships | - |
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| sociopath | (noun) someone with a sociopathic personality; a person with an antisocial personality disorder (`psychopath' was once widely used but has now been superseded by `sociopath') | Synonyms: psychopath |
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| sock | (noun) hosiery consisting of a cloth covering for the foot; worn inside the shoe; reaches to between the ankle and the knee | - |
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| (noun) a truncated cloth cone mounted on a mast; used (e.g., at airports) to show the direction of the wind | Synonyms: air-sleeve, air sock, drogue, wind cone, wind sleeve, wind sock, windsock |
| socket | (noun) a receptacle into which an electric device can be inserted | - |
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| (noun) receptacle where something (a pipe or probe or end of a bone) is inserted | - |
| (noun) a bony hollow into which a structure fits | - |
| sockeye | (noun) small salmon with red flesh; found in rivers and tributaries of the northern Pacific and valued as food; adults die after spawning | Synonyms: blueback salmon, Oncorhynchus nerka, red salmon, sockeye salmon |
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| (noun) fatty red flesh of salmon of Pacific coast and rivers | Synonyms: red salmon, sockeye salmon |
| socle | (noun) a plain plinth that supports a wall | - |
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