sort
Language: EN · Kind: word · Transcription: [/soɹt/]
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1. sort (noun) — sense 1
Definition: A general type.
Example: I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.
2. sort (noun) — sense 2
Definition: Manner, way; form of being or acting.
Example: Soon as the term of those six years shall cease,
Ye then shall hither back return again,
The marriage to accomplish vow’d betwixt you twain.
Which for my part, I covet to perform,
In sort as through the world I did proclaim,
That whoso kill’d that monster (most deform)
And him in hardy battle overcame,
Should have mine only daughter to his Dame […]
3. sort (noun) — sense 3
Definition: Condition above the vulgar; rank.
Example: “What think you, Captain Fluellen? is it fit this soldier keep his oath?”
“He is a craven and a villain else, an’t please your majesty, in my conscience.”
“It may be his enemy is a gentleman of great sort, quite from the answer of his degree.”
“Though he be as good a gentleman as the devil is, as Lucifer and Belzebub himself, it is necessary, look your grace, that he keep his vow and his oath.”
Structure of the word
Roots:- ser (bind, Proto-Indo-European)
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