different between society vs crew

English

Alternative forms

• soc. (abbreviation)

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French societé , from Latin societ?s, societ?tem (“fellowship, association, alliance, union, community”), from socius (“associated, allied; partner, companion, ally”), from Proto-Indo-European *sok?-yo- (“companion”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek?- (“to follow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??sa?.?.ti/

Noun

society (countable and uncountable, plural societies)

1. (countable) A long-standing group of people sharing cultural aspects such as language, dress, norms of behavior and artistic forms.
2. (countable) A group of people who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest; an association or organization.

   • At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors. […] In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.

3. (countable) The sum total of all voluntary interrelations between individuals.
4. (uncountable) The people of one’s country or community taken as a whole.
5. (uncountable) High society.
6. (countable, law) A number of people joined by mutual consent to deliberate, determine and act toward a common goal.

Derived terms

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References

Further reading

• "society" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 291.

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: kroo?, IPA^(key): /k?u?/
• Rhymes: -u?
• Homophones: crewe, Crewe, cru

Etymology 1

From Middle English crue, from Old French creue (“an increase, recruit, military reinforcement”), the feminine past participle of creistre (“grow”), from Latin crescere (“to arise, grow”).

Noun

crew (plural crews)

1. A group of people together
   1. (obsolete) Any company of people; an assemblage; a throng.
   2. A group of people (often staff) manning and operating a large facility or piece of equipment such as a factory, ship, boat, airplane, or spacecraft.

   3. A group of people working together on a task.

   4. (art) The group of workers on a dramatic production who are not part of the cast.

   5. (informal, often derogatory) A close group of friends.

   6. (often derogatory) A set of individuals lumped together by the speaker.
      • 1861 William Weston Patton, (version of) John Brown's Body

        He captured Harper’s Ferry, with his nineteen men so few,

        And frightened "Old Virginny" till she trembled thru and thru;

        They hung him for a traitor, they themselves the traitor crew,

        But his soul is marching on.
   7. (Scouting) A group of Rovers.
   8. (slang, hip-hop) A hip-hop group
   9. (rowing) A rowing team manning a single shell.
2. A person in a crew
   1. (plural: crew) A member of the crew of a vessel or plant.

   2. (art, plural: crew) A worker on a dramatic production who is not part of the cast.

   3. (nautical, plural: crew) A member of a ship's company who is not an officer.

3. (sports, rowing, US, uncountable) The sport of competitive rowing.
   • 1973, University of Virginia Undergraduate Record

     The University of Virginia belongs to the Atlantic Coast Conference and competes interscholastically in basketball, baseball, crew, cross country, fencing, football, golf, indoor track, lacrosse, polo, soccer, swimming, tennis, track, and wrestling.

Synonyms

• (group manning a vessel): ship's company, all hands, complement
• (group engaged in a task): team, gang
• (non-cast dramatic personnel): staff, stagehands
• (social group): clique, gang, pack, crowd, bunch, lot (UK); posse
• (group lumped together): crowd, flock, lot, gang
• (hip-hop group): posse, band, group
• (member of a crew): crewer, member, crewmember; nautical only: sailor, seaman
• (non-officer ship worker): seaman

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

crew (third-person singular simple present crews, present participle crewing, simple past and past participle crewed)

1. (transitive and intransitive) To be a member of a vessel's crew

2. To be a member of a work or production crew

3. To supply workers or sailors for a crew
4. (nautical) To do the proper work of a sailor

5. (nautical) To take on, recruit (new) crew

Derived terms

• crewer
• uncrewed
• crew up

Translations

Etymology 2

Verb

crew

1. (Britain, archaic) simple past tense of crow (“make the characteristic sound of a rooster”).

   It was still dark when the cock crew.

Etymology 3

Probably of Brythonic origin.

Noun

crew (plural crews)

1. (Britain, dialectal) A pen for livestock such as chickens or pigs

Derived terms

• crewyard

Etymology 4

Noun

crew (plural crews)

1. The Manx shearwater.

Gallery

See also

• Appendix:Dictionary notes/crew
• Crew on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Spanish

Noun

crew m (plural crews)

1. crew