sor

Clipping of sorority, like frat from fraternity.

sor (plural sors)

1. (US, informal) A sorority (student organization).
   • 2004, The Unofficial, Unbiased Guide to the 331 Most Interesting Colleges 2005, page 327:

     “The Greeks have tons of influence on campus,” says one student. “Frats and sors allow for smaller groups of friends, making it easier to have a social identity.”

   • 2011, Brian Washburn, University of Utah 2012:

     If you are not a part of a Frat/Sor, then it seems at though they are non-existent.

• ORS, ORs, Ors, ROS, RSO, Ros, SRO

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• IPA^(key): /s̺or/ [s̺or]
• Rhymes: -or
• Hyphenation: sor

sor (comparative sorrago, superlative sorren, excessive sorregi)

1. numb

   Synonym: soraio

2. discreet, inconspicuous
3. (dated) deaf

   Synonym: gor

• “sor”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
• “sor”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

Inherited from Latin soror (nominative form).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈsɔr]

sor f (plural sors)

1. (religion) sister, female member of a religious community
2. (archaic) sister

• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈsɔr]

sor (feminine sora, masculine plural sors, feminine plural sores)

1. (regional) reddish

• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈsɔr]

sor m (plural sors)

1. (Valencia, botany) sorus

• “sor”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “sor”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “sor” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “sor” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• (Rémois) seur
• (Langrois) so

Inherited from Old French soir, from Late Latin sēra.

• IPA^(key): /sɔr/

sor m (plural sors)

1. (Troyen) evening

• Daunay, Jean (1998) Parlers de Champagne : Pour un classement thématique du vocabulaire des anciens parlers de Champagne (Aube - Marne - Haute-Marne)‎^[1] (in French), Rumilly-lés-Vaudes
• Baudoin, Alphonse (1885) Glossaire de la forêt de Clairvaux‎^[2] (in French), Troyes

• 梳 (so¹)

Clipping of English sorry.

sor

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, colloquial) Used to express apology over trivial matters, where apology is needed but the use of sorry would be considered too formal.

• IPA^(key): /sor/
• Rhymes: -or
• Hyphenation: sor

sor

1. (neologism, nonstandard) up, upwards (direction away from the center of the Earth)

• supren (“up, upwards”)

• malsupren (“down, downwards”)
• (neologism, nonstandard) sob (“down, downwards”)

• sori
• Soros

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• IPA^(key): [ˈʃor]

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• Rhymes: -or

sor (plural sorok)

1. row (in the auditorium of a theater etc.)

   Holonym: nézőtér (“auditorium”)

   Meronyms: szék, ülés, hely (all: “seat”)

2. row (in a sheet, table, database)

   Coordinate term: oszlop (“column”)

3. (of text) line

   Holonyms: bekezdés, oldal, fejezet, szöveg

   Meronyms: szó, betű

4. queue (GB) , line (US) (people or things waiting to be served one after the other)
5. (mathematics, physics) series

   Synonym: sorozat

6. a fairly large quantity (of things)
7. (of events) chain, course, succession

   Synonym: sorozat

8. someone’s turn (used in several phrases with -n/-on/-en/-ön)

   Synonyms: jön (literally “to come”), következik (both: to be one’s turn, literally “to follow”)

   soron következik ― to come next

   Most rajta a sor, hogy bizonyítson. ― Now it’s his turn to prove himself.

   Mindjárt rákerül a sor. ― Soon it will be his/her turn.

   Szerintem ő van most soron. ― I think it's his/her turn right now.

9. occurrence, taking place (with the verbs kerít, kerül)
10. (after a proper name) a type of street or road with buildings on one side only

    Ajtósi Dürer sor ― Ajtósi Dürer Road

11. situation, status

    Synonym: helyzet

12. birth, social rank, class (used with adjectives like high or low)
13. (archaic) fate, lot

    Synonyms: sors, végzet

14. (poker) straight
15. (chess) rank
16. significance, footing (whether things are on a par with each other)

• → Carpathian Rusyn: шор (šor)
• → Pannonian Rusyn: шор (šor)

• sor in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

• sorę

Inherited from Latin soror (nominative). The plural reflects Latin sorōres. Compare to Daco-Romanian soră.

• IPA^(key): /sor/

sor f (plural sorâr)

1. sister

From signore.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɔr/, /ˈsor/
• Rhymes: -ɔr, -or
• Hyphenation: sòr, sór

sor m (feminine sora)

1. (dialectal, chiefly Romanesco) mister, sir (before personal names or professions)

sor

1. romanization of ꦱꦺꦴꦂ

From Old English sār.

sor

1. alternative form of sore

sor

1. alternative form of sore

sor

1. alternative form of sore

From Old French sor, from Frankish *saur, from Proto-Germanic *sauzaz. Doublet of sere (“dry”).

• sore, sowre, sawre, soure, sowyr, soore

• IPA^(key): /sɔːr/, /sɔr/

sor

2. sorrel (red-brown; used to describe animals)

• sored
• sorel
• sowryng

• English: sore (obsolete)

• “sō̆r(e, adj.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 10 June 2018.

sor (plural sowres)

1. A sorrel horse.
2. A four-year-old male deer.

• English: sore (obsolete)

• “sō̆r(e, adj.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 10 June 2018.

• سۆر (sor) — Arabic spelling

From Proto-Iranian *cuxráh.

Central Kurdish	سوور (sûr)
Southern Kurdish	qirmiz, süer
Zazaki	sûr
Gurani	sur

sor (comparative sortir, superlative herî sor or tewrî sor)

1. red

Colors in Northern Kurdish · reng (layout · text)

spî	gewr	reş
sor; sorê sor	pirteqalî; qehweyî	zer; qîçik
keskê vekirî	kesk	kevz; keskê tarî
şînê vekirî; hêşîn	şînê esmanî	şîn
şîrkî, mor; heş	soravî; binefşî, xemir	pîvazî, pembe

sor

1. alternative form of seur

Unknown (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /sɔr/
• Rhymes: -sɔr
• Hyphenation: sor

sor

1. lower
2. inferior
3. lose
4. down

sor

1. to lose, to be defeated, to be worsted

• > Javanese: ꦱꦺꦴꦂ (sor) (inherited)

• "sor" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

Back-formation from sarna.

• (Lesser Poland):
  • (Kielce) IPA^(key): /ˈsɔr/

sor f

1. (Kielce) roebuck

   Pán leśnicy złapał w tesie sora. ― The forester caught a roe buck in the forest.

• Władysław Siarkowski (1891) “sor”, in “Słowniczek gwary ludowej z okolic Pińczowa”, in Sprawozdania Komisyi Językowej Akademii Umiejętności (in Polish), volume 4, page 339

Unknown. Probably ultimately from Latin sus, through a Vulgar Latin variant *suris instead of suis, through analogy with other Latin declensions like mus, whence muris, or os, whence oris.

sor n (plural soruri) (rare)

1. skin shaved from a pig

sor f (obsolete or dialectal)

1. alternative form of soră (“sister”)

• “sor”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025

• Sor

Borrowed from Catalan sor, from Latin soror, from Proto-Italic *swezōr, from Proto-Indo-European *swésōr.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsoɾ/ [ˈsoɾ]
• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: sor

sor f (plural sores)

1. (religion) sister, female member of a religious community
2. (archaic) sister

   Synonym: hermana

• “sor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

sor

1. indefinite plural of so

• Ros, ors, ros

• sûr

From Proto-Iranian *cuxráh.

sor

1. red