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Word entry · 4 letters

sort

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"Type or arrange"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /soɹt/Part of speech verb, nounSorted orstStarts with SEnds with T1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. arrange or order by classes or categories

Word origin

From Middle English sort, soort, sorte (cognate Dutch soort, German Sorte, Danish sort, Swedish sort), borrowed from Old French sorte (“class, kind”), from Latin sortem, accusative form of sors (“lot, fate, share, rank, category”).

Used in a sentence

  • Swearing doesn't just mean what we now understand by "dirty words". It is entwined, in social and linguistic history, with the other sort of swearing: vows and oaths.
  • I’ll deceive you in another sort
  • But to Adam in what sort Shall I appeer? shall I to him make known As yet my change, and give him to partake Full happiness with mee, or rather not, But keep the odds of Knowledge within my power Without copartner?

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