English Words: S
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A notional battery representing one's energy for socializing, with the need to be periodically recharged.
A gregarious person who likes to attend parties and other social gatherings; a people person.
A meeting made primarily for social reasons rather than for business, duty, or urgency; a friendly or informal call.
The goodwill, sympathy, and connections created by social interaction within and between social networks.
One who tries to improve his or her social status, especially by means of obsequious behaviour.
A process that helps multiple people share information using interpersonal and social networks to achieve any common goal.
The expression of one's point of view or feelings towards society, usually through literature.
A subset of electronic commerce that involves social media and user contributions to assist online buying and selling of products and services.
A conservative political philosophy, generally rooted in traditional values and manifesting itself in opposition to drug use, sexual permissiveness, birth control, abortion rights, homosexuality, same-sex marriage, and transgender identity.
The spontaneous spread of behaviour when it is unconsciously copied from one individual by another; a behavior that spreads in this manner.
An implicit agreement or contract among members of a society governing such matters as submission of individuals to the rule of law and acceptable conduct.
A political and economic philosophy originated by C. H. Douglas which envisages an "aristocracy of producers, serving and accredited by a democracy of consumers".
A doctrine that, under capitalism, purchasing power is not sufficiently in the hands of those who spend the money, and that the governmental should control retail prices and see to the distribution of national dividends to consumers.
The theory that the laws of evolution by natural selection also apply to social structures.
The practice of maintaining physical distance between people to reduce the spread of communicable diseases by isolating those with such diseases in quarantines, maintaining space between individuals, and prohibiting certain activities.
The study of relationships between people and their environment, especially the interdependence of people, collectives and institutions.
The application of the principles of business entrepreneurship—including risk-taking and ingenuity—to social causes.
A feeling of exhaustion experienced after excessively engaging in social activities.
A political ideology that uses socialist rhetoric but engages in imperialist actions.
Government-mandated provision for the unemployed, injured, or aged, typically funded by a combination of government spending, individual contributions, and employer contributions.
A mismatch between a person's natural and biological sleep rhythms and the schedules imposed by work, school, or social obligations.
A person who advocates for progressive views or attitudes, principally with regard to social justice.
An individual's interpersonal relationships with people within their immediate surroundings or general public.
A food, beverage, drug or activity that helps people feel more comfortable in social occasions.
Applications or websites allowing users to share content and communicate with one another through the Internet.
An application or website allowing users to share content and communicate with one another via the Internet; an individual social media site.
The knowing causing of the inevitable premature death of members of an oppressed class by deliberately and structurally exposing them to potentially lethal conditions.
A network of personal or business contacts, especially as facilitated by social networking on the Internet.
A social behavior that is engaged in for the purpose of being polite; an act that reflects refinement, decorum, and courtesy.
The use of social networking web sites in the workplace, when one is supposed to be productively working.
A particular system of social structures, institutions, customs, values, and practices which conserve, maintain, and enforce certain societal relations and behavioral patterns.
A psychological and social phenomenon wherein people copy the actions of others if unsure how to behave.
An art and film movement that critically portrays the everyday lives of the working class and the poor.
A voluntarily assumed obligation toward the good of society at large as opposed to the self alone.
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English alphabetical index for the letter S contains 54,294 headwords drawn from our Wiktionary-derived dictionary table. At 50 entries per page the browse splits into 1,086 pages, and you are currently viewing page 552. Every row above is a dictionary-backed entry with a canonical slug, and each links through to a full definition page with pronunciation, senses, etymology, and related-word data where available.
On this page 50 of 50 entries carry a part-of-speech tag and 50 carry at least one stored definition. Coverage varies across letters because Wiktionary volunteers build entries at different speeds for different parts of the alphabet, letters with common starting sounds (S, C, T, P) usually have the densest coverage, while less frequent starters (X, Q, Z) tend to have shorter but more specialised lists. PlainSpell surfaces whatever data is present and links back to the source when a definition is not yet recorded.
For readers using this index as a spelling reference, the guarantee is that every form you see on the list is a documented English headword, not a guess, not a derived inflection lacking a lemma row. If a word you expected to find is absent from the "S" list, it usually means the form exists only as an inflection of another lemma (e.g. a past participle stored under the infinitive) or the entry has not yet been imported from Wiktionary. Use the search bar or the misspelling lookup to resolve these cases.