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Definition of Sociable

1. Noun. A party of people assembled to promote sociability and communal activity.

2. Adjective. Inclined to or conducive to companionship with others. "Americans are sociable and gregarious"

3. Adjective. Friendly and pleasant. "A sociable gathering"

Definition of Sociable

1. a. Capable of being, or fit to be, united in one body or company; associable.

2. n. A gathering of people for social purposes; an informal party or reception; as, a church sociable.

Definition of Sociable

1. Adjective. Tending to socialize or be social; friendly; inviting; congenial. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sociable

1. a social [n -S] - See also: social

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sociable

soccer mums soccer player soccer players soccerball soccered soccering soccerlike soccerplex soccerplexes soccers

socia socia parotidis sociabilities sociability sociable (current term) sociable numbers sociableness sociablenesses sociables social-psychology

social-science social Darwinism social action social activity social adaptation social adjustment social affair

Literary usage of Sociable

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Homes Without Hands: Being a Description of the Habitations of Animals by John George Wood (1866)
"The sociable WEAVER BIBD and its country—Description of the bird—Nest of the ... This is the sociable WEAVER BIRD, sometimes called the sociable GROSBEAK ..."

2. Merry's Museum (1842)
"THE sociable WEAVERS. A Tree wiih Nests of sociable Weavers upon it. The sociable Weavers, MEN find it convenient to devote themselves to different trades. ..."

3. Crabb's English Synonyms by George Crabb (1917)
"It is possible for a man to be social and not sociable; to be sociable and not social: he who draws his pleasures from society without communicating his ..."

4. The Theatre: An Essay Upon the Non-accordancy of Stage-plays with the by Josiah Woodward Leeds (1886)
"Having pointed out that a first result of the Church " sociable " is, that instead of social distinctions with their attractions and repulsions being ..."

5. Bygone Days in Chicago: Recollections of the "Garden City" of the Sixties by Frederick Francis Cook (1910)
"As it was also the first attempt in Chicago to make a newspaper "story" out of a private "sociable," some account of what happily proved a futile essay ..."

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