Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or resembling a sister; sisterly.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to a sister or sisters; sisterly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Relating to a sister; sisterly.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to a
sister . - adjective Related through someone's sister, e.g.
sororal nephew .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective like or characteristic of or befitting a sister
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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However, after Leah’s marriage to Jacob, Leah’s sister Rachel also became a primary wife to Jacob — a marriage arrangement known as sororal polygyny.
Zilpah: Bible. 2009
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Although Dorle (Friederike Becht) and Isabel (Luise Heyer) are sororal rather than identical twins, as they have grown up they've developed a coded system of determining how to respond to life's challenges and risks.
George Heymont: What Part of the Word "Verboten" Did You Not Understand? George Heymont 2012
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Although Dorle (Friederike Becht) and Isabel (Luise Heyer) are sororal rather than identical twins, as they have grown up they've developed a coded system of determining how to respond to life's challenges and risks.
George Heymont: What Part of the Word "Verboten" Did You Not Understand? George Heymont 2012
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Although Dorle (Friederike Becht) and Isabel (Luise Heyer) are sororal rather than identical twins, as they have grown up they've developed a coded system of determining how to respond to life's challenges and risks.
George Heymont: What Part of the Word "Verboten" Did You Not Understand? George Heymont 2012
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Although Dorle (Friederike Becht) and Isabel (Luise Heyer) are sororal rather than identical twins, as they have grown up they've developed a coded system of determining how to respond to life's challenges and risks.
George Heymont: What Part of the Word "Verboten" Did You Not Understand? George Heymont 2012
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Life in MIT dorms and fraternal/sororal organization is "normal" for people who live in MIT dorms, and for people in e.g.
Making Light: Scholarly works to avoid citing at all costs 2010
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Has your fraternal organization, sororal organization, poker club, bridge club, drinking club, Morris dancing club, motorcycle gang, hip-hop dance team, amateur dramatic society, Sunday school class or transcendental meditation group considered pooling its money to donate to Children's?
Donate a little or a lot to Children's Hospital to help sick kids John Kelly 2010
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Has your fraternal organization, sororal organization, poker club, bridge club, drinking club, Morris dancing club, motorcycle gang, hip-hop dance team, amateur dramatic society, Sunday school class or transcendental meditation group considered pooling its money to donate to Children's?
Donate a little or a lot to Children's Hospital to help sick kids John Kelly 2010
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At the same time, it's about domesticity and family and sororal bonding.
Teddy Wayne: Interview With Jami Attenberg, Author of "The Melting Season" 2010
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Ironically, as the sororal voices drop away owing to irreparable feuds or lost letters or death, the surviving sisters become more serious and open.
An Amazon.com Books Blog featuring news, reviews, interviews and guest author blogs. 2008
bilby commented on the word sororal
"The question is often asked of me now, 'Are you still a feminist?' as if it were possible for me to be anything else. Everything I learn reinforces my conviction that the only corrective to social inequality, cruelty and callousness, is to be found in values which, if we cannot call them female, can be called sororal. They are the opposites of competitiveness, acquisitiveness and domination, and may be summed up by the word 'co-operation'."
- 'The Madwoman's Underclothes', Germaine Greer.
March 26, 2008
jaime_d commented on the word sororal
"Sibylla, though, was so fond of Willigis, fond of him with a passion that sat oddly with kinship, that sororal adoration would gradually blossom into carnal lust. . ." Gilbert Adair translation of Georges Perec's La Disparition
August 11, 2010