Download the app
educalingo
Search

Meaning of "broken society" in the English dictionary

Dictionary
DICTIONARY
section

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD BROKEN SOCIETY

Coined by Conservative leader David Cameron.
info
Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
facebooktwitterpinterestwhatsapp
section

PRONUNCIATION OF BROKEN SOCIETY

broken society play
facebooktwitterpinterestwhatsapp

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BROKEN SOCIETY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Broken society is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES BROKEN SOCIETY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of broken society in the English dictionary

The definition of broken society in the dictionary is a perceived or apparent general decline in moral values.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BROKEN SOCIETY

broke
broken
broken chord
broken consort
Broken Hill
broken lot
broken number
broken reed
broken vein
broken white line
broken wind
broken-down
broken-winded
brokenhearted
brokenheartedly
brokenheartedness
brokenly
brokenness
broker
broker-dealer

WORDS THAT END LIKE BROKEN SOCIETY

Audubon Society
benefit society
Big Society
building society
civic society
civil society
consumer society
debating society
dramatic society
friendly society
high society
honor society
humane society
John Birch Society
Law Society
polite society
preservation society
Royal Society
secret society
society
variety

Synonyms and antonyms of broken society in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «broken society» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR
online translator

TRANSLATION OF BROKEN SOCIETY

Find out the translation of broken society to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of broken society from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «broken society» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

破碎的社会
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

sociedad quebrada
570 millions of speakers

English

broken society
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

टूटी समाज
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

المجتمع المكسور
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

сломанной общество
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

sociedade quebrada
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ভাঙা সমাজ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

société brisée
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Masyarakat yang rosak
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

gebrochene Gesellschaft
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

壊れた社会
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

깨진 사회
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Rusak masyarakat
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

xã hội bị phá vỡ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

உடைந்த சமுதாயம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

तुटलेली समाज
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Kırık toplum
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

società rotto
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

złamane społeczeństwo
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

зламаною суспільство
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

societate rupt
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

σπασμένο κοινωνία
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

gebroke samelewing
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

bruten samhälle
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

ødelagte samfunn
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of broken society

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BROKEN SOCIETY»

The term «broken society» is normally little used and occupies the 135.685 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
0
100%
FREQUENCY
Little used
37
/100
The map shown above gives the frequency of use of the term «broken society» in the different countries.
Principal search tendencies and common uses of broken society
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «broken society».

FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «BROKEN SOCIETY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «broken society» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «broken society» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about broken society

EXAMPLES

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BROKEN SOCIETY»

Discover the use of broken society in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to broken society and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Epitaphs of a Broken Society
Brennan Chadwick Emerson. Epitaphs of a Broken Society 0 Brennan Chadwick Emerson Writer's Showcase New York Lincoln Shanghai Epitaphs of a Broken Society All Rights Reserved © 2000.
Brennan Chadwick Emerson, 2000
2
The Big Society Debate: A New Agenda for Social Policy?
The essays in this volume probe the historical origins of the concept and seek to evaluate it in the light of both historical and contemporary evidence.
Armine Ishkanian, Simon Szreter, 2012
3
Relationships.What You Should Know and Do Before You Enter ...
Here are the consequences of broken marriages and broken relationships and as the UK's Conservative Party leader David Cameron calls it, if I may quote British Broadcasting Corporation BBC, and the Daily Teleraph, “broken society/ Britain” ...
Joel Olusola Akande, Joel A, 2009
4
Teacher Education Through Active Engagement: Raising the ...
8 Here Cameron (2011c) directly links the political rhetoric of 'broken society' with that of the need for educational change for international competitiveness, as he states: 'When China is going through an educational renaissance, when India is ...
Lori Beckett, 2013
5
Criminalisation and Advanced Marginality: Critically ...
This is perhaps most explicitly captured in the 'Broken Society' idea. The labels ' Broken Society' and 'Broken Britain' have passed into wider popular and media discourses about the social and moral health of the UK in the news media.
Peter Squires, John Lea, 2012
6
The Cambridge Handbook of Stylistics
(The Observer, 24 June 2012) In Cameron's rhetoric theopposite of ' TheBigSociety' is not 'small society' (which he does notuse),but 'broken society' as in Figure 35.5. Figure 35.5: KWIC displayfor 'broken society' in Cameron corpus This ...
Peter Stockwell, Sara Whiteley, 2014
7
The Orange Book: Reclaiming Liberalism
In this stimulating collection, the next generation of Liberal Democrat leaders, including MPs and MEPs David Laws, Edward Davey, Vince Cable, Steve Webb, Chris Huhne, Nick Clegg and Mark Oaten, proposes a vigorous future for the party and ...
Paul Marshall, David Laws, 2004
8
Cameron and the Conservatives: The Transition to Coalition ...
In his victory speech accepting the party leadership, he identified the need for ' social action to ensure social justice, and a stronger society' and declared that the Conservatives could 'mend our broken society'. Cameron identified a number of ...
Timothy Heppell, 2012
9
Developing Early Childhood Services: Past, Present And ...
In the couple of years or so before the election David Cameron frequently spoke of the United Kingdom as being a 'broken society'. Not many people seemed to notice that precisely the same phrase was employed by Tony Blair in his 1996 ...
Baldock, Peter, 2011
10
The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger
Long before the financial crisis which gathered pace in the later part of 2008, British politicians commenting on the decline of community or the rise of various forms of anti-social behaviour, would sometimes refer to our 'broken society'.
Kate Pickett, Richard Wilkinson, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BROKEN SOCIETY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term broken society is used in the context of the following news items.
1
REVIEW: The Skriker @ Royal Exchange, Manchester
The play, originally devised by Churchill during the tumultuous years of the 1980s, explores themes of possession, insanity and broken society, ... «The Bolton News, Jul 15»
2
Brazil Is No Paradise - But Here's Why
But I don't see this happening unless people one day realise that the way to turn this broken society is to stop whoever is spreading the hate. «Huffington Post UK, Jul 15»
3
"Mad Max: Fury Road" Is a Resource-Conscious Blockbuster for Our …
The film doesn't just rebuke the greedy, but saddles them with the blame for a broken society. Rather than humanity at large, it was privatizing ... «AlterNet, Jul 15»
4
Shutter Is The Beautiful Comic That Doesn't Coddle You - The …
We're a broken society in an oft-savage world and I'm not even sure how to deal with it. I'm doing my best my educating my own ignorance and ... «Bleeding Cool News, Jun 15»
5
UK: Ten years After 7/7 – OpEd
Before he came to power David Cameron described Britain as a “broken society.” Now, responding to what many want to hear, he is more ... «Eurasia Review, Jun 15»
6
SNP MP attacks Tory 'austerity orgy' in debut speech
“A broken society shackled to a future of despair and trying to hold itself together by its finger tips surely is too high a price to be paying for a ... «Edinburgh Evening News, Jun 15»
7
Whiting: A half-century after King's dream speech, Charleston …
It is a conversation no parent should need to have. “When it comes to murdering each other,” Kyle Marks concludes, “we are a broken society.” «OCRegister, Jun 15»
8
Dylann Roof must be nailed!
... child of a broken family, the product of a broken society, disturbed, drug-addled, deluded. Irrational. Idiosyncratic. Atypical. Without agency. «Independent Online, Jun 15»
9
A pastoral response to the Charleston shooting
Faith leaders of every tradition have been known to preach that a broken society is one which fails to love one another. When then, when will ... «Herald Review, Jun 15»
10
Cameron's Speech Feeds Anti-Muslim Prejudice
Britain and the West have been suffering from "the broken society" syndrome. I remember this phrase very well. It was David Cameron who said ... «Huffington Post UK, Jun 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Broken society [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/broken-society>. May 2024 ».
Download the educalingo app
en
English dictionary
Discover all that is hidden in the words on
index
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z