of or pertaining to society; relating to men living in society, or to the public as an aggregate body; as, social interest or concerns; social pleasure; social benefits; social happiness; social duties.-ready or disposed to mix in friendly converse; companionable; sociable; as, a social person.-consisting in union or mutual intercourse.-naturally growing in groups or masses; -- said of many individual plants of the same species.-living in communities consisting of males, females, and neuters, as do ants and most bees.-forming compound groups or colonies by budding from basal processes or stolons; as, the social ascidians.