soc

See also: Appendix:Variations of "soc"

English

Etymology 1

From sociology

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /səʊʃ/
• IPA^(key): /soʊʃ/

Noun

soc (plural socs)

1. (slang, uncountable) Sociology or social science.
2. (slang, countable) Upper class youth.
   • 1967, S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders, page 2:

     We get jumped by the Socs. I'm not sure how you spell it, but it's the abbreviation for the Socials, the jet set, the West-side rich kids.

Alternative forms

• Soc

Etymology 2

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English soke, sok, soc, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English sōcn, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *sōkniz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɒk/
• IPA^(key): /sɑk/

• Audio (AU):

  (file)

Alternative forms

• sock, soke

Noun

soc

1. (UK, law, obsolete) The lord's power or privilege of holding a court in a district, as in manor or lordship; jurisdiction of causes, and the limits of that jurisdiction.
2. (UK, obsolete) Liberty or privilege of tenants excused from customary burdens.
3. (UK, obsolete) An exclusive privilege formerly claimed by millers of grinding all the corn used within the manor or township in which the mill stands.

Derived terms

• soc and sac

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “soc”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• 'cos, CSO, Cos, OCS, OCs, OSC, SCO, co's, cos, cos.

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Catalan

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɔk/

Noun

soc m (plural socs)

1. stump

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sok/

Verb

soc

1. (2016 spelling reform) Alternative spelling of sóc

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Chinese

Etymology

From English society.

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sou²

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: sou²
    • Yale: sóu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sou²
    • Guangdong Romanization: sou²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sou̯³⁵/

Noun

(deprecated template usage) soc

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) university society

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French

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *soccus, a word borrowed from Gaulish, from Proto-Celtic *sukkos (compare Middle Irish socc, Welsh swch (“plowshare”)), literally "pig's snout," from Proto-Indo-European *suH-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɔk/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

soc m (plural socs)

1. plowshare
2. (butchery) Boston butt

Further reading

• “soc”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• Cos

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Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *sukkaz (whence also Old English socc, Old Norse sokkr), from Latin soccus.

Noun

soc m

1. sock

Descendants

• Middle High German: soc, socke
  • Alemannic German: Sockä
  • Central Franconian: Sock
  • German: Socke (see there for further descendants)
  • Vilamovian: zok

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Romanian

Etymology

From Latin sabūcus, variant of sambūcus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sok/
• Rhymes: -ok

Noun

soc m (plural soci)

1. elder (plant)

Declension

Declension of soc

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) soc	socul	(niște) soci	socii
genitive/dative	(unui) soc	socului	(unor) soci	socilor
vocative	socule		socilor

Derived terms

• socată