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单词 sorority
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sororityn.

/səˈrɒrɪti/
Etymology: < medieval Latin sororitas, or < Latin soror sister + -ity suffix, after fraternity. Compare obsolete French sororité (Cotgrave 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.
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society > society and the community > social relations > an association, society, or organization > types of association, society, or organization > [noun] > an association of women > a sisterhood
sisterheada1393
sorority1532
sisterhood?1540
sorory1600
sisternity1603
society > faith > church government > laity > congregation > [noun] > female part of
sorority1646
1532 T. More Confut. Barnes in Wks. (1557) 761/1 This would he say for the comfort of ye whole fraternitie and sororiti in general.
1646 E. Pagitt Heresiogr. (ed. 3) 87 The Synod of New-England maketh not onely the fraternity (but, as they speak) the sorority to be the subject of the..power of the keyes.
1657 J. Watts Scribe, Pharisee 101 [The care] of the fraternity and sorority within their limits.
2. U.S. A women's society in a college or university. Also attributive.
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society > society and the community > social relations > an association, society, or organization > types of association, society, or organization > [noun] > an association of women
sorosis1869
sorority1900
women's group1968
society > education > learning > learner > college or university student > [noun] > student societies
fraternity1777
Phi Beta Kappa1799
union1817
law society1821
Skull and Bones1845
Bones1869
corps1874
frat1895
sorority1900
union1911
Nusas1925
1900 Harper's Mag. Sept. 490 One saw many of those neat little sorority pins the American girl proudly brings home from boarding-school or college.
1908 G. E. Cody (title) Jacquette: a Sorority Girl.
1909 C. W. Eliot Univ. Admin. 223 Sororities have, in general, the same merits and advantages as fraternities.
1911 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 1 Apr. 2/5 All of the girls lived at a sorority house, 4522 Eighteenth avenue, Northeast.
1948 A. N. Keith Three came Home xiii. 229 I had my sorority pin, which had been specially set in my college days with a diamond.
1977 New Yorker 27 June 30/3 Rats, you sound like a sorority pledge at Sophie Newcomb College.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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