sorority

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• Received-Pronunciation: /səˈrɒrɪti/
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• General-American: /səˈrɔrəti/
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• rhymes with -ɒɹɪti
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• CMU ARPABET: S ER0 AO1 R AH0 T IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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PIE word *swésōr From Renaissance Latin sorōritās, from Latin soror (“sister”), from Proto-Indo-European *swésōr. Akin to Spanish sororidad, Portuguese sororidade, French sororité.

29 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: сестринство (sestrinstvo) — group of women or girls associated for a common purpose
• Chinese Mandarin: 婦女聯誼會 /妇女联谊会 (fùnǚ liányìhuì) — group of women or girls associated for a common purpose
• Czech: sesterstvo — group of women or girls associated for a common purpose
• Czech: dívčí spolek — group of women or girls associated for a common purpose
• Danish: søsterskab — group of women or girls associated for a common purpose
• Finnish: sisarkunta — group of women or girls associated for a common purpose
• Finnish: sisaristo — group of women or girls associated for a common purpose
• Finnish: naisyhdistys — group of women or girls associated for a common purpose
• Finnish: tyttökerho — group of women or girls associated for a common purpose
• Irish: seathras — group of women or girls associated for a common purpose
• Macedonian: сестринство (sestrinstvo) — group of women or girls associated for a common purpose
• Polish: stowarzyszenie kobiet — group of women or girls associated for a common purpose
• Portuguese: sororidade — group of women or girls associated for a common purpose
• Portuguese: irmandade — group of women or girls associated for a common purpose
• Russian: сестринство (sestrinstvo) — group of women or girls associated for a common purpose
• Spanish: sororidad — group of women or girls associated for a common purpose
• Swedish: systerskap — group of women or girls associated for a common purpose
• Catalan: sororitat — social organization of female students at a college or university
• Chinese Mandarin: 女學生聯誼會 /女学生联谊会 (nǚxuéshēng liányìhuì) — social organization of female students at a college or university
• Finnish: sisarkunta — social organization of female students at a college or university
• Finnish: naisyhdistys — social organization of female students at a college or university
• French: sororité — social organization of female students at a college or university
• German: Verbindung von College-Studentinnen — social organization of female students at a college or university
• German: Schwesternschaft — social organization of female students at a college or university
• Irish: seathras — social organization of female students at a college or university
• Macedonian: сестринство (sestrinstvo) — social organization of female students at a college or university
• Polish: korporacja studentek — social organization of female students at a college or university
• Spanish: sororidad — social organization of female students at a college or university
• Welsh: chwaeroliaeth — social organization of female students at a college or university