Meaning of word sociable

общительный, коммуникабельный, вечеринка, козетка, встреча

прилагательное

- общительный, компанейский; дружелюбный
- дружеский

существительное

- вечер, вечеринка
- собрание членов церковного прихода
- козетка

Словосочетания

sociable behavior — общительное поведение  
sociable behaviour — общительное поведение  

Примеры с переводом

Примеры, ожидающие перевода

Возможные однокоренные слова

dissociable  — разъединимый, необщительный, несоответствующий, разделимый
unsociable  — необщительный, малообщительный, нелюдимый
insociable  — необщительный

English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Middle French sociable, from Latin sociābilis.

Pronunciation[edit]

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsoʊʃəbəl/

Adjective[edit]

sociable (comparative more sociable, superlative most sociable)

1. (of a person) Tending to socialize or be social.

   He’s normally pretty quiet, but he gets much more sociable around women.

   Synonyms: friendly, inviting, congenial

   • 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     Society is no comfort to one not sociable.

2. Offering opportunities for conversation; characterized by much conversation.

   a sociable party

3. (archaic) Capable of being, or fit to be, united in one body or company; associable.

   • They are sociable parts united into one body.

4. (obsolete) No longer hostile; friendly.

   • c. 1608–1610, Francis Beaumont; John Fletcher, “Philaster: Or, Love Lies a Bleeding”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     Is the King sociable And bids thee live ?

Antonyms[edit]

• (tending to socialize): unsociable

Derived terms[edit]

• sociability
• sociableness

Translations[edit]

Noun[edit]

sociable (plural sociables)

1. A sociable person.
2. (historical) A four-wheeled open carriage with seats facing each other.
3. A bicycle or tricycle for two persons side by side.
4. A couch with a curved S-shaped back.
5. (US) An informal party or church meeting for purposes of socializing.
   • 1903, George Horace Lorimer, Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son (page 46)

     At the church sociables he used to hop around among them, chipping and chirping like a dicky-bird picking up seed; and he was a great hand to play the piano, and sing saddish, sweetish songs to them.

Asturian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin sociābilis.

Adjective[edit]

sociable (epicene, plural sociables)

1. sociable

Catalan[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin sociābilis.

Adjective[edit]

sociable (masculine and feminine plural sociables)

1. sociable

Further reading[edit]

• “sociable” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “sociable”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “sociable” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “sociable” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin sociābilis.

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /sɔ.sjabl/

Adjective[edit]

sociable (plural sociables)

1. sociable

Further reading[edit]

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

Galician[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

• sociábel

Etymology[edit]

From Latin sociābilis.

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /sɔ.ˈθja.ble/, [s̺ɔ.ˈθja.βle̝]

Adjective[edit]

sociable m or f (plural sociables)

1. sociable

Antonyms[edit]

• insociable

Further reading[edit]

• “sociable” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

Spanish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin sociābilis.

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /soˈθjable/ [soˈθja.β̞le]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /soˈsjable/ [soˈsja.β̞le]
• Rhymes: -able
• Syllabification: so‧cia‧ble

Adjective[edit]

sociable (plural sociables)

1. sociable

Derived terms[edit]

Further reading[edit]

• “sociable”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

She said she preferred the term «sociable TV» to «social TV,» urging marketers to start «creating an experience consumers want to engage with over a longer period of time.» ❋ By STUART ELLIOTT (2012)

It was not half so interesting as taking lunch to school and eating it in sociable rings on the playground, or in groups under the trees. ❋ Lucy Maud (1917)

She was described as a «sociable and pretty young girl». ❋ Unknown (2011)

Young children with imaginary friends are often described as sociable, imaginative children who love stories and pretend play. ❋ Unknown (2011)

After taking an early breakfast, we all got into a carriage called a sociable, which is very like a larger sort of American coaches and went to ❋ James Fenimore Cooper (1820)

«sociable» is safer, perhaps, than the tandem; but it is very heavy and awkward, and has a way of taking up the greater part of the road. ❋ Annie Sullivan (1905)

[Page 203] ing of fire-arms, hauling of faggots, chatting and smoking in sociable groups: everybody had crept under the doubtful shelter of branches and tarpaulins; the whole army was back in its burrows. ❋ Unknown (1915)

The 57-year-old married father of four, described as a sociable member of staff, set himself on fire in the car park of a site at Merignac, near Bordeaux, after arriving for a morning shift. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The observers of this law may be called sociable, (the Latins call them commodi); the contrary, stubborn, insociable, forward, intractable. ❋ Unknown (2007)

«Oh, I don’t mean a dance — I mean — er — well, what you’d call a sociable, I suppose.» ❋ Carolyn Wells (1902)

Conversation even among the older residents was spasmodic and intermittent, and in no sense could the meal be termed sociable or cheerful. ❋ George De Horne Vaizey (1887)

He was not at any time what would be called a sociable man, and there is therefore nothing unexpected in the fact that he was fond of long walks in which he was not known to have had a companion. ❋ Henry James (1879)

There was in the tree a cluster of nests of the bird called the sociable grosbeak; and the Hottentot hid himself among these nests, in hopes that he could get out of the lion’s sight, and that the beast would leave him. ❋ Unknown (1835)

I never saw a large company sit down to what we should call a sociable meal, by eating from the same dish. ❋ Robert Kerr (1784)

It is a so-called sociable robot, a new generation of robots that adapt their behaviour in order to interact with humans. ❋ Phuijee (2010)

[Let’s play] [sociables] and [get weird]. ❋ Rara.23 (2014)

[I am not] [a slut], [I am] just sexually sociable! ❋ Becky A (2007)

«[kenzie] doesn’t [come out] of her [room], she is so anti-sociable» ❋ Nocteye (2018)

John does not [partake] in [social interactions] because he is non-sociable. Either that or he’s just a [giant] asshole. ❋ Agent Chrelk (2013)

No way I cant [hangout] with an anti-sociable than nobody will [talk to me] at [the club]. ❋ Greygums (2007)

My neighbor’s furry [black Lab] realized that I was getting bored and lonesome while I was sitting in the front yard to wait for his master to get home, and so he sympathetically performed the classic friendly-canine «progressively sociable» routine on me — first sitting at my feet and letting me smooth his forehead and [riffle] his fluffy ears, then [scooching] forward a bit and placing his front paws on my shoe-lacings, then gently [nudging] my chest backwards with his head so that he could move his [paws up] onto my shins, then [easing] on up even closer to me so that I’d slide my legs down flat and he could rest his paws on my kneecaps, then moving up further to place his paws on my hips, then again using his head to softly lean me even further back, and so on — till he had me totally [lying flat] on my back and he had fully stretched out and settled himself on top of me. Kinda weird — not to mention heavy — having a huge fuzzy 90-pound dog resting peaceably on top of me, but I realized he meant well, and that he was merely trying to ensure that I didn’t feel quite so lonely from waiting till his master got back. ❋ QuacksO (2018)

[Dante] smiled and greeted me warmly but he didn’t even want to talk to me
[Uh-oh]
He’s [a sociable Loner]!! ❋ Anjieee (2022)

“don’t [tell me] your this drunk [off of] a [natty light]”
“nah that’s just my sociable” ❋ Hes A Fuckboi (2022)

[Fay] is very sociable,she has [a lot] of [friends]. ❋ ❤Your Cutie❤ (2020)

Person 1: [Ella] es [un chica sociable].
Person 2: Sorry I don’t [speak Spanish]. ❋ Un Chica Sociable (2022)

so·cia·ble

 (sō′shə-bəl)

adj.

1. Fond of the company of others; gregarious: a sociable party guest.

2. Marked by or affording occasion for agreeable conversation and conviviality. See Synonyms at social.

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[French, from Latin sociābilis, from sociāre, to share, join, from socius, companion; see sek^w— in Indo-European roots.]

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so′cia·ble·ness n.

so′cia·bly adv.

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

sociable

(ˈsəʊʃəbəl)

adj

1. friendly or companionable

2. (of an occasion) providing the opportunity for friendliness and conviviality

n

3. chiefly US another name for social⁹

4. (Automotive Engineering) a type of open carriage with two seats facing each other

[C16: via French from Latin sociābilis, from sociāre to unite, from socius an associate]

ˌsociaˈbility, ˈsociableness n

ˈsociably adv

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

so•cia•ble

(ˈsoʊ ʃə bəl)

adj.

1. inclined to associate with or be in the company of others.

2. friendly or agreeable in company; companionable.

3. characterized by agreeable companionship: a sociable evening.

[1545–55; < Latin sociābilis=sociā(re) to unite (derivative of socius partner, comrade) + -bilis -ble]

so′cia•ble•ness, n.

so′cia•bly, adv.

Random House Kernerman Webster’s College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved.

sociable

, social, society — Sociable, social, society, etc. originate in Latin socius, «companion, fellow,» or «colleague.»

See also related terms for social.

Farlex Trivia Dictionary. © 2012 Farlex, Inc. All rights reserved.

social

– sociable

1. ‘social’

The adjective social is used in front of a noun. Its usual meaning is ‘relating to society’.

We collect statistics on crime and other social problems.

They discussed the government’s social and economic policy.

Social can also be used to describe things that relate to a people meeting or communicating with each other for pleasure, as a leisure activity.

We’ve met at social and business functions.

Social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter became incredibly popular.

2. ‘sociable’

Don’t use ‘social’ to describe people who are friendly and enjoy talking to other people. Use sociable.

Kaito was an outgoing, sociable man.

She’s very sociable and has lots of friends.

Collins COBUILD English Usage © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 2004, 2011, 2012

Sociable

An informal social event such as a Pie supper.

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