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单词 sorority
释义 sorority|səˈrɒrɪtɪ|
[ad. med.L. sororitas, or f. L. soror sister + -ity, after fraternity. Cf. obs. F. sororité (Cotgr. 1611).]
1. A body or company of women united for some common object, esp. for devotional purposes; U.S., the female section of a church congregation.
1532More Confut. Barnes viii. Wks. 761/1 This would he say for the comfort of y⊇ whole fraternitie and sororiti in general.1645E. Pagitt Heresiogr. (1647) 86 The Synod of New England maketh not only the fraternity but (as they speak) the sorority to be the subject of the..power of the keyes.1657J. Watts Dipper Sprinkled 101 [The care] of the fraternity and sorority within their limits.
2. U.S. A women's society in a college or university. Also attrib.
1900Harper's Mag. Sept. 490 One saw many of those neat little sorority pins the American girl proudly brings home from boarding-school or college.1908G. E. Cody (title), Jacquette: a Sorority Girl.1909C. W. Eliot Univ. Administr. 223 Sororities have, in general, the same merits and advantages as fraternities.1911Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 1 Apr. 2/5 All of the girls lived at a sorority house, 4522 Eighteenth avenue, Northeast.1948A. N. Keith Three come Home xiii. 229, I had my sorority pin, which had been specially set in my college days with a diamond.1977[see rat n.1 2 e].
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