Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of, relating to, or resembling a sister; sisterly.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Of or pertaining to a sister or sisters; sisterly.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of or pertaining to a sister.
- adj. Related through someone's sister, e.g. sororal nephew.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. rare Relating to a sister; sisterly.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. like or characteristic of or befitting a sister
Etymologies
- From Latin soror (“sister”) + -al. (Wiktionary)
- From Latin soror, sister; see swesor- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“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.”
“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.”
The Huffington Post: George Heymont: What Part of the Word "Verboten" Did You Not Understand?
“At the same time, it's about domesticity and family and sororal bonding.”
Teddy Wayne: Interview With Jami Attenberg, Author of "The Melting Season"
“Ironically, as the sororal voices drop away owing to irreparable feuds or lost letters or death, the surviving sisters become more serious and open.”
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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.”
“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?”
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“Vintage very kindly offered to send me a set of twins of my own and I've spent a week wondering whether I'd get fraternal or sororal, or one of each.”
“In 1938, Roger Hollis joined MI5, the British internal security service, sister agency (not that sororal relations were always affectionate) to MI6, the Secret Intelligence Service: spy-catchers and spies respectively.”
“Lydia suddenly felt a unique urge of sororal feeling for Audrey and spoke in her interest.”
“After a rocky first third of shopworn "where the Hell are we" bickery and clunky sororal jabs that probably looked better on the page than they sound hanging in the air, PLAGUE TOWN hits its stride in a series of discomfiting encounters that ratchet up the tension and give the production a palpable sense of visceral horror lacking in most genre product.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘sororal’.
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Not 250 Spelling Words Again
Yet more spelling words for intermediate to advanced spellers.
kyoodle, heimin, feis, menarche, cordwainer, gherao, zythum, accidie, anastomosis, boustrophedon, oleum, penicillin and 238 more...
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phrontistery-s
from phrontistery.info
sabaton, sabbatarian, sabbulonarium, sabelline, sabin, sable, sabliere, sabot, sabretache, sabulous, saburration, saccade and 1593 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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Uncommon and Interesting words
That come in handy, but might make you look like a douchebag.
prurient, lithe, superannuated, wanderlust, sanguine, florid, slugabed, candor, eldritch, superbowl syndrome, indolent, perforce and 37 more...
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seventhspice's Words
supine, distaff, lest, janissary, articulator, chaos, scrumptious, charlatan, alacrity, papyrus, corollary, funicular and 106 more...
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O! Timballo
for the same
tea-poy, pooking fork, ait, eyot, quodlibet, milk leg, tussie-mussie, calash, gueules, caitiff, bindery, demi-rep and 228 more...
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The Collection
A somewhat discriminatory list of words and phrases collected for their euphonic or arcane appeal, interesting etymology, or concise definition of an otherwise unnamed phenomenon or concept.
ziggurat, neophilia, sucker punch, soporific, epoch, tundra, fiat, idiotproof, miscellany, metaphysics, cryptozoology, dysphoria and 856 more...
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Adjectival Arcana
A roster of adjectives that infrequently surface in typical conversation and writing. Many are dredged from scientific or other technical jargon or sieved from examples of disused archaic forms.
unitegmic, acaulescent, reticuloendothelial, ingressive, uniate, acanthopterygian, ossific, epiphysial, perivisceral, acœlomatous, cestoid, acælomate and 7756 more...
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Femmesque
Curious words having to do with women: positive or negative; feminine, observational, technical, weird, stupid, crass, etc. I loathe some of these words but I'm using this list as a catch-all... ev...
mittelschmerz, gynotikolobomasso..., ingenue, uxorious, hogminny, quim, suffragette, damsel, madame, parturient, testatrix, mediatrix and 188 more...
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2008 Wordlist
Hopefully, I'll be using this site for more than one year. It will be fun then to look back and see what new words I found worthy of notice in any given year.
All words spotted in 2008...longanimity, permalancer, breeder, biodegradable, handicapable, gender-neutral, translator, interpreter, translation, interpreting, kleptocracy, fanfiction and 1598 more...
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word set8
dolmen, cairn, penetralia, dovetailed, draftsmanship, gestalt, dingbat, tenebrosity, squash racquets, dogleg, prurience, deflowering and 68 more...
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e-less list
Choice words from Adair's translation of La Disparition
confocal, quiddity, burin, sororal, caparison, lancinating, simoon, fustian, turbot, hirudination, turbid, doss and 31 more...
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vocab
words for everyday use
cantrip, inimical, sonorous, susurrous, equipollent, ribald, irreverent, maudlin, harlotry, arcane, locomote, nettlesome and 38 more...
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Latinate Adjectives
ursine, vulpine, leonine, lupine, porcine, apian, vermian, cygnean, gallinaceous, cetacean, renal, hepatic and 14 more...
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Words that I hate with the fire of a ...
I hate these words!
ointment, squat, cripple, moist, damp, mauve, hole, irregardless, mealymouthed, jock, jocular, sororal
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Rainbows?!
superciliary, iridal, welkin, heterochrome, gwydion, cerulean, supernal, prismatic, optics, hypethral, cerulific, serein and 29 more...
Tweets
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jaime_d "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 Aug 11, 2010
bilby "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. Mar 26, 2008