单词 | sorority |
释义 | sororityn. 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1532 |
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