sodality

noun

sō-ˈda-lə-tē How to pronounce sodality (audio)
Definition of sodalitynext
1
as in organization
a group of persons formally joined together for some common interest a 19th-century observer of American society noted that Americans had a fondness for forming sodalities

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2
as in fraternity
the body of people in a profession or field of activity a tragic loss of life that was felt throughout the sodality of firefighters

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Recent Examples of sodality Living authors of books investigating the day of rest, a small but select sodality, are probably feeling dizzy right now. — Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 22 Dec. 2025 The viewer can almost imagine being a photographer who has penetrated this room of intellectual sodality, revolutionary fervor, and overwhelming youth. — Philip Tinari, Artforum, 1 Mar. 2025
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  1. organization
  2. fraternity
  3. association
  4. profession
  5. society
  6. corps
  7. institution
  8. institute
Noun
  • There is a subset of incoming college first year students, men and women, who find these organizations really appealing, and some of it is entirely understandable.
    — Richard Hall, Time, 7 Oct. 2026
  • The county’s options for the facility range from holding Discovery Place in default and taking over the nature museum to accepting Discovery Place’s terms and giving the organization decades to repay the debt, staff said.
    — Mary Ramsey, Charlotte Observer, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of organization
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  • An email and phone message at the fraternity's national headquarters were not immediately returned.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 8 Oct. 2026
  • The officer pressed him on his inability to identify the fraternity members who were there.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of fraternity
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  • The clash added another layer to a campaign in which el Sayed’s positions on foreign policy and his associations with prominent progressive figures have become points of contention.
    — Barnini Chakraborty, The Washington Examiner, 9 Oct. 2026
  • The hospitality and hotel sector is one of Europe’s largest employers, with more than 10 million people working across 2 million businesses, according to data from Hotrec, the association of hotels, restaurants, bars, and cafés in Europe.
    — Ted Kitterman, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of association
Noun
  • Incident response has always been a human profession disguised as a technical one.
    — Tony Kirtley, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2026
  • Teaching is a profession no less than medicine or law, and those of us who aren’t professional educators can help but usually won’t be as effective as professionals.
    — Colin Pascal, Baltimore Sun, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of profession
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  • But what begins as a bold and daring attempt to broach progressive issues in a notoriously conservative society ultimately loses its nerve, acquiescing to a number of eyebrow-raising narrative compromises.
    — Guy Lodge, Variety, 11 Oct. 2026
  • In countries where heat practices are deeply interwoven into society — such as Finland and Japan — public funding has supported some of this research.
    — Will Stone, NPR, 11 Oct. 2026
Definition of society
Noun
  • That’s because the Dolphins face one of the better wide receiver corps Sunday in the Minnesota Vikings, a unit punctuated by one of the best at the position in Justin Jefferson.
    — Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 4 Oct. 2026
  • Seattle quarterback Sam Darnold is back from a Week 1 injury and playing well behind a productive receiving corps.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of corps
Noun
  • This year there are 339 exhibiting companies and institutions from 32 countries and territories, 17% more than last year.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 10 Oct. 2026
  • The result is a country spending heavily to sustain its public institutions while struggling to deliver the services citizens expect and a political system increasingly consumed by conflict over how to fix them.
    — Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 10 Oct. 2026
Definition of institution
Noun
  • Last Energy, a commercial spinoff of Energy Impact Center, a clean energy institute based in Washington, DC, is building a pilot facility at Texas A&M RELLIS with a nuclear core that will also feature in its commercial-scale reactors.
    — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 9 Oct. 2026
  • What illness, which the institute studies, has been the subject of speculation about her death?
    — New York Times, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of institute

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“Sodality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sodality. Accessed 12 Oct. 2026.

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