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sorority

noun
/səˈrɒrɪti/UK/səˈrɔrəti/US

Etymology

PIE word *swésōr From Renaissance Latin sorōritās, from Latin soror (“sister”), from Proto-Indo-European *swésōr. Akin to Spanish sororidad, Portuguese sororidade, French sororité.

  1. derived from *swésōr✻
  2. derived from soror
  3. borrowed from sorōritās

Definitions

  1. A group of girls or women associated for a common purpose

    A group of girls or women associated for a common purpose; a sisterhood.

  2. A social organization of female students at a college or university

    A social organization of female students at a college or university; usually identified by Greek letters.

    • Every day is a party at this sorority!

The neighborhood

Derived

fratority, intersorority, sororitylike, sorostitute

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at sorority. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at sorority. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

6 hops · closes at sorority

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA