sorority
noun /səˈrɒrəti/
/səˈrɔːrəti/
(plural sororities)
(North American English)- a club for a group of women students at an American college or university
（美国大学里的）女生联谊会 CultureMembers often live together in a sorority house. They are called ‘Greeks’, because each sorority's name consists of two or three Greek letters, such as Chi Omega or Kappa Kappa Gamma. They also help charities and do community work. A few student sororities are academic or professional organizations.compare fraternitycompare fraternityTopics Educationc2Collocations DictionarySorority is used before these nouns:- member
- party
- sister
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词源mid 16th cent.: from medieval Latin sororitas, or from Latin soror ‘sister’ (on the pattern of fraternity).