Definition of social

• a. - Of or pertaining to society; relating to men living in society, or to the public as an aggregate body; as, social interest or concerns; social pleasure; social benefits; social happiness; social duties.
• a. - Ready or disposed to mix in friendly converse; companionable; sociable; as, a social person.
• a. - Consisting in union or mutual intercourse.
• a. - Naturally growing in groups or masses; -- said of many individual plants of the same species.
• a. - Living in communities consisting of males, females, and neuters, as do ants and most bees.
• a. - Forming compound groups or colonies by budding from basal processes or stolons; as, the social ascidians.