Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922.
Class VI. Words Relating to the Sentient and Moral PowersSection III. Sympathetic Affections
1. Social Affections
892. Sociality.
CONVIVIALITY; good- fellowship, – company; joviality, jollity, savoir vivre [F.], joie de vivre [F.], festivity, festive board, walnuts and wine, merrymaking; loving cup; hospitality, heartiness; cheer; “the feast of reason and the flow of soul” [Pope].
WELCOME, welcomeness, greeting; hearty -, warm -, welcome- reception; hearty welcome; hearty -, warm- greeting; the glad hand [slang].
BOON COMPANION; good -, jolly- fellow; bon enfant [F.], bawcock [archaic], crony, bon vivant [F.]; a good mixer [colloq., U. S.]; a j’iner [colloq., U. S.].
social -, family- circle; family hearth; circle of acquaintance, coterie, society, company; club (association) [See Party].
SOCIAL GATHERING, social reunion; assembly (assemblage) [See Assemblage]; barbecue [U. S.]; bee; corn-husking [U. S.], corn-shucking [U. S.]; husking, husking-bee [U. S.]; hen party [colloq.]; house raising, house-warming, hanging of the crane; infare or infair [Scot & dial., U. S.]; smoker, – party [both colloq.]; Dutch treat [colloq., U. S.]; stag, – party [both colloq.]; sociable [U. S.], tamasha [Hind.], party, entertainment, reception, levee, at home, conversazione [It.], soirée [F.], matinée; evening -, morning -, afternoon -, garden -, coming-out [colloq.] -, surprise- party; partie carrée [F.]; kettledrum, drum, drum major, rout [archaic], tempest, hurricane; ridotto [It.]; ball, hunt ball, dance, dinner dance, festival (amusement) [See Amusement].
[SOCIAL MEALS] breakfast, wedding breakfast, hunt breakfast; luncheon, lunch; picnic lunch, basket lunch, picnic; tea, afternoon tea, five o’clock tea, cup of tea, dish of tea [esp. Brit.], thé dansant [F.], coming-out tea [colloq.]; tea party, tea fight [slang]; dinner, potluck, bachelor dinner, stag dinner colloq.], hunt dinner; church supper, high tea; banquet [See Food].
VISIT, visiting; round of visits; call, morning call; interview (interlocution) [See Interlocution]; assignation; tryst, trysting place; appointment.
VISIT, pay a visit; interchange -visits, – cards; call at, call upon; leave a card; drop in, look in, look one up, beat up one’s quarters [colloq.].
RECEIVE HOSPITALITY; be -, feel -, make oneself- at home with; make free with; crack a bottle with; take potluck with; live at free quarters; find the latchstring out [U. S.].
ENTERTAIN; give a party &c. n.; be at home, see one’s friends, keep open house, do the honors; receive, – with open arms; welcome; give a warm reception &c. n. to; kill the fatted calf.
welcome, – as roses in May; fêted, entertained.
free and easy, hail fellow well met, familiar, intimate, consociate, consociated; associated with &c. v.; on visiting terms, acquainted; social, neighborly.
international, cosmopolitan; gregarious.
- A crowd is not company.—Bacon
- Be bright and jovial among your guests to-night.—Macbeth
- His worth is warrant for his welcome.—Two Gentlemen
- Let’s be red with mirth.—Winter’s Tale
- Welcome the coming speed the parting guest.—Pope
- We have heard the chimes at midnight.—II Henry IV
- ’Tis grievous parting with good company.—George Eliot
- O go not yet!—II Henry VI
- And now subscribe your names.—Love’s Labor’s Lost
- Drink a health to me for I must hence.—Taming of the Shrew
- Stand not upon the order of your going, But go at once.—Macbeth