sorority

sorority
/seuh rawr"i tee, -ror"-/, n., pl. sororities.
a society or club of women or girls, esp. in a college.
[1525-35; < ML sororitas, equiv. to L soror- (s. of soror) SISTER + -itas -ITY]

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