The noun society has 4 senses (first 2 from tagged texts)
1. (88) society -- (an extended social group having a distinctive cultural and economic organization)
2. (6) club, social club, society, guild, gild, lodge, order -- (a formal association of people with similar interests; "he joined a golf club"; "they formed a small lunch society"; "men from the fraternal order will staff the soup kitchen today")
3. company, companionship, fellowship, society -- (the state of being with someone; "he missed their company"; "he enjoyed the society of his friends")
4. society, high society, beau monde, smart set, bon ton -- (the fashionable elite)