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Idioms about sort
Origin of sort
First recorded in 1200–50; Middle English noun, from Middle French sorte, from Medieval Latin sort- (stem of sors ) “kind, allotted status or portion, lot,” Latin: originally, “lot (for voting)”; Middle English verb sorten “to allot, arrange, assort,” from Middle French sortir or directly from Latin sortīrī “to draw lots,” derivative of sors; later senses influenced by the noun and by assort
usage note for sort
See kind2.
OTHER WORDS FROM sort
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How to use sort in a sentence
British Dictionary definitions for sort
sort
/ (sɔːt) /
noun
verb
Derived forms of sort
sortable, adjectivesortably, adverbsorter, nounWord Origin for sort
C14: from Old French, from Medieval Latin sors kind, from Latin: fate
undefined sort
See kind 2
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Other Idioms and Phrases with sort
sort
see after a fashion (sort); all kinds (sorts) of; bad sort; it takes all sorts; kind (sort) of; nothing of the kind (sort); of sorts; out of sorts.
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