sorority
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5.0
- noun
- /səˈrɔrɪti/
- US
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fraternidad (femenina, EE. UU.)
- When the package arrived, I found not magazines but rather two sorority yearbooks.
- social sororities
- fraternities and sororities
- sorority sisters
Men do not belong in women's bathrooms, locker rooms, sororities, prisons, or OBGYN offices.
- Men do not belong in women's bathrooms, locker rooms, sororities, prisons, or OBGYN offices.
- You don't want to be in a sorority just because they think you're cool.
- They're they're in the dorms and they're in the sororities and fraternities and they call them Bibles.
- Did you hear, did you ever hear from your your old sorority friends?
- They're just like the worst type of frat guys, the worst type of sorority girls.
- And it's that the white kids have gone the to rush the fraternities and sororities.
- And I think this comes up a lot, as I said, in sororities and on teams, but also in houses, roommate situations, and then also with parents.
- So if some random startup founder knocks on a sorority door, the police are coming, you know, like you can't, you can't do that.
Examples
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Look I'm excited baby but I got to be with my sorority sisters too.
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Mum convinced me to join a sorority.
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See those sorority girls over there?
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But I have a sorority meeting till nine, so I'll be back before you close.
Fiction book (1994) -
I'm going to the sorority house.
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Two of the three women had been in sororities in college.
Fiction book (1993) -
Several of my sorority sisters took BIP courses last semester, and I decided to try one.
Academic text (2008) -
In fraternities and sororities, students are free, momentarily, from the influence of the larger institution.
Academic text (1990) -
During college orientation, she decided to join a sorority to connect with other female students.
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As part of her commitment to the sorority, she volunteered at local charities every month.
How Exclusive
Surface Forms
Morphology
sorority = soror (opaque) = soror + ity
The root form 'soror' is a Latin combining form not familiar to average learners, so the meaning 'social organization for female students' is not directly derivable from known English components.
Etymology
Sorority comes from the Latin word soror, which means 'sister'. It was formed to match fraternity ('brother'), so a sorority is a 'sister' group for female students.