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sociable

US/ˈsoʊʃəbəl/
adjectiveB2Common in everyday speech and writing · #8,335 of 15,258neutral

Sociable means enjoying and seeking out the company of others. A sociable person, a sociable evening, feeling sociable.

It describes a disposition and is entirely approving. Applied to an occasion it means friendly and easy — a sociable dinner. Note the difference from social, which is about society in general and does not mean this: a social occasion is one involving people, and a sociable one is enjoyable. Note also sociable hours, meaning times a reasonable person would be awake.

Definitions of sociable

  1. 1adjectivesociableEnjoying and seeking out the company of others.B2

    “She's very sociable and loves meeting new people at parties.”

    synonyms: gregarious, outgoing

sociable is a quality of friendliness.

Where it comes from

Latin sociabilis comes from socius, a companion. Social, associate and society come from the same companionship.

  1. Latin

    sociābilis

  2. Middle French

    sociable

  3. English, today

    sociable

From Middle French sociable, from Latin sociābilis.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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sociable in the wild

  • Numbers that are members of an aliquot sequence with period greater than 2 are known as sociable numbers.

    Amicable numbers

  • In mathematics, sociable numbers are numbers whose aliquot sums form a periodic sequence.

    Sociable number

  • The first two sociable sequences, or sociable chains, were discovered and named by the Belgian mathematician Paul Poulet in 1918.

    Sociable number

  • An ice cream social or ice cream sociable is an informal social event at which the main focus is the serving and eating of ice cream.

    Ice cream social

  • A sociable is an open four-wheeled carriage with face-to-face seating and folding hoods, used primarily as a light town or pleasure vehicle.

    Sociable (carriage)

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.