Gesellschaft
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English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from German Gesellschaft, from Geselle + -schaft. Compare to English gemeinschaft.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]Gesellschaft (plural Gesellschaften or Gesellschafts)
- (sociology) A hypothetical mode of society, made up of self-serving individuals linked by impersonal ties; as opposed to Gemeinschaft.
- 1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow:
- Seven years later, Hernández wrote a Return of Martín Fierro in which the Gaucho sells out: assimilates back into Christian society, gives up his freedom for the kind of constitutional Gesellschaft being pushed in those days by Buenos Aires.
German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle High German gesellescaft, from Old High German giselliscaft. Equivalent to Geselle + -schaft.
Cognate with Dutch gezelschap.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]Gesellschaft f (genitive Gesellschaft, plural Gesellschaften)
- company (presence of other people in general)
- Ich habe Gesellschaft. ― I have company. / I'm not alone.
- company (group of people)
- Da kam eine Gesellschaft.
- There came a group of people.
- society, the public (abstract concept of an organised social group or a local population in general)
- 1983 [1857-1858], Karl Marx, Grundrisse (Marx-Engels-Werke), volume 42, page 189; translated as Martin Nicolaus, transl., Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy (Rough Draft)[1], 1973, page 265:
- Die Gesellschaft besteht nicht aus Individuen, sondern drückt die Summe der Beziehungen, Verhältnisse aus, worin diese Individuen zueinander stehn.
- Society does not consist of individuals, but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.
- 1932, Erich Mühsam, Die Befreiung der Gesellschaft vom Staat, in: Erich Mühsam: Prosaschriften II, Verlag europäische ideen Berlin (1978), page 253:
- Wie stellt ihr euch eine Gesellschaft ohne Staat und Obrigkeit vor?
- How do you imagine a society without state and authorities?
- 1995, “Digital ist Besser”, performed by Tocotronic:
- In einer Gesellschaft in der man bunte Uhren trägt / In einer Gesellschaft wie dieser bin ich nur im Weg
- In a society where one wears coloured watches, I only stand in the way.
- society (organised group of people with common interests)
- Die Goethe-Gesellschaft lädt zur Lesung.
- The Goethe Society invites you to a reading.
- (law) company, corporation (collection of people and assets with a legal identity, which may or may not be separate from that of its members)
Declension
[edit]Declension of Gesellschaft [feminine]
singular | plural | ||||
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indef. | def. | noun | def. | noun | |
nominative | eine | die | Gesellschaft | die | Gesellschaften |
genitive | einer | der | Gesellschaft | der | Gesellschaften |
dative | einer | der | Gesellschaft | den | Gesellschaften |
accusative | eine | die | Gesellschaft | die | Gesellschaften |
Hyponyms
[edit]- Aktiengesellschaft, Abendgesellschaft, Ellenbogengesellschaft, Geheimgesellschaft, Fluggesellschaft, Handelsgesellschaft, Kontrollgesellschaft, Verlagsgesellschaft, Versicherungsgesellschaft, Wohnungsgesellschaft, Wegwerfgesellschaft
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]- Gesellschaftsanteil, Gesellschaftsabend, Gesellschaftsaufgabe, Gesellschaftsmitglied, Gesellschaftsspiel, Gesellschaftstreffen, Gesellschaftsvermögen
Further reading
[edit]- “Gesellschaft” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Gesellschaft” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “Gesellschaft” in Duden online
- Gesellschaft on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
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