to know someone socially

[chopin7]

Hello

What does it mean "to know someone socially"?

Simply, to have a friendship relationship
with that person or something else?

Thanks

 

[Aardvark01]

The meaning can vary with context. In what context did you read or hear this?

 

[George French]

Hello

What does it mean "to know someone socially"?

Simply, to have a friendship relationship
with that person or something else?

Thanks

It is used to differentiate between someone you know from work and someone you know socially.

GF..

 

[chopin7]

It's a conversation between a detective and a suspect.
She asks him if he knew the victim socially.

 

[Parla]

It's a conversation between a detective and a suspect.
She asks him if he knew the victim socially.

That would be, on a personal (not necessarily romantic or sexual) basis, the kind of relationship in which they might share meals, or attend the same parties or other events together. This is as contrasted with other ways in which they might know each other. Perhaps they have worked together, as George has suggested; or they might know each other as neighbors on the same street; or they might be professor and student.

 

[chopin7]

Thank you, Parla.
That's perfectly clear now