Noun: social
| Singular | social |
| Plural | socials |
Sample Sentences
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They organized a social at the dance club to help people get to know one another.
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Fred hated going down to the social to sign on.
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What's your social? [asked so that the asker can look up your account details]
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“I saw that shift, and I was like, ‘Oh, that’s the future of social,’” Systrom said. [2023 January 31, Casey Newton, quoting Kevin Systrom, “Instagram’s co-founders are back with Artifact, a kind of TikTok for text”, in The Verge, archived from the original on 02 Apr 2024:]
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It went mainstream after it was dubbed the "vampire facial" on social. [2026, Brian Underwood, “When You Can Turn Back Time”, in Men's Health, volume 41, number 2, page 31:]
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Also check out some other experts in this topic — their socials are in the pinned comment below.
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Close your mouth and delete all your socials tonight. [2019 August 29, “Cheeto Christ Stupid Czar”, Randy Rainbow (lyrics), Andrew Lloyd Webber (music)performed by Randy Rainbow:]
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Nearly a week after the Chicago-born Robert Francis Prevost became Pope Leo XIV, the world is still adjusting to the fact that he has an American family that does typically American things. The Borgias, for all their many sins, never posted crude or spicy memes to the socials. [2025 May 13, Richard Fausset, “The Pope’s Florida Brother, a MAGA Disciple, Plans to ‘Tone It Down’”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 14 May 2025:]
Nouns inflected like social
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
4. Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
5. Proto-Indo-European *sokʷéh₂
6. Proto-Indo-European *-ṓy
7. Proto-Indo-European *sokʷh₂ṓy
8. Proto-Indo-European *-yós
9. Proto-Indo-European *sokʷyós
10. Proto-Italic *sokjos
11. Latin sokios
12. Latin socius
13. Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-
14. Proto-Indo-European *-is
15. Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.?
16. Proto-Italic *-ālis
17. Latin -ālis
18. Latin sociālisbor.
19. Middle French socialbor.
20. English social
21. From Middle French social, from Latin sociālis (“of or belonging to a companion or companionship or association, social”), from socius (“a companion, fellow, partner, associate, ally”), from sequor (“follow”). Cognate with English seg (“man, companion, fellow”). More at seg. See: Latin Nouns '
sociālis', English Nouns '
seg'.