plural of soccer ball

(Britain) A school subject in which students are taught important facts of life not covered in other subjects, such as sexual relationships, drug abuse and so on.

(art) A Stalinist idealization of the dictatorship of the proletariat applied to art that used realistic techniques to show the struggle for socialism in a positive and optimistic manner.

The goodwill, sympathy, and connections created by social interaction within and between social networks. / The value created by social relationships, with expected returns in the marketplace.

(chiefly US) Alternative form of table football

(historical) Existing in Ancient Greece before the flourishing of the philosopher Socrates (circa 469–399 BCE).

(historical) Any of the pre-Socratic philosophers, viz. Thales (circa 624–546 BCE), Anaximander (circa 610–546 BCE), Anaximenes (circa 585–525 BCE), Pythagoras (circa 576–495 BCE), Xenophanes (circa 570–480 BCE), Heraclitus (circa 535–475 BCE), Parmenides (early-5ᵗʰ century BCE), Anaxagoras (circa 500–428 BCE), Empedocles (circa 490–430 BCE), and Democritus (circa 460–370 BCE).

Obsolete spelling of pre-Socratic

Archaic spelling of pre-Socratic.

(social sciences) A class of people, based on social power, wealth or another criterion.