gesellschaft
- noun
- /ɡəˈzɛlʃɑft/
- The research collaboration was established under the auspices of a scientific gesellschaft focused on climate change solutions.
- Gesellschaft für
- der Gesellschaft
Examples
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Another organ for the reform movement was the journal, Das zwanzigste Jahrhundert, the publication of the Kraus Gesellschaft, edited by Franz Klasen and Johannes Bumuller.
Academic text (1993) -
On January 21, 1931, Tret'iakov presented an overview of his work on the kolkhoz to the Gesellschaft der Freunde des Neuen Ruland in Berlin.
Academic text (2002) -
Benjamin may well have attended the lecture since he had covered for Die literarische Welt a talk given at the Gesellschaft the previous year by Tret'iakov's Lef colleague Brik.
Academic text (2002) -
The Kraus Gesellschaft had been founded in Munich in 1904 as a daughter organization of the Katholische Reformverein München.
Academic text (1993) -
The members of the environmental advocacy gesellschaft organized a community clean-up event to promote sustainability.
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The literary gesellschaft hosts monthly readings to foster appreciation for contemporary authors.
Synonyms
A number of people or things seen as one unit
A group of people who work together for a common goal
A group of people who share a common purpose or interest
A group of people with the same job or interest who help each other
People who share an interest and meet regularly
People who meet, talk, and feel they belong together
A small group in a larger organization that shares a common professional interest
A group of people who work together for a common purpose
A group of people who share a common purpose and work together
A group of people who act together for a shared purpose
A group of people who do the same job
A group of people who work together for a shared purpose
A formal group of states or organizations that works together
A group, like a family or work team, that is part of a larger community
A small group of people with the same interests who treat each other as special
How Formal
Surface Forms
Etymology
Gesellschaft comes from German Gesell 'companion' plus -schaft like the English -ship, so it originally suggested 'companionship'. That's why the word is used for a formal group or society formed for a certain purpose, like a cultural association.