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College Fraternities and Sororities

Local or national organizations of college students, primarily for social purposes, usually with secret initiations and rites and a name composed of two or three Greek letters.

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Abstract

Local or national organizations of college students, primarily for social purposes, usually with secret initiations and rites and a name composed of two or three Greek letters.

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Synonyms

33 entry terms
  • Collegiate Fraternities and Sororities
  • College Fraternities
  • College Sororities
  • Collegiate Fraternities
  • Collegiate Sororities
  • Greek Letter Organizations
  • Greek Letter Societies
  • Greek-Letter Organizations
  • Greek-Letter Societies
  • College Fraternity
  • College Sorority
  • Collegiate Fraternity
  • Collegiate Sorority
  • Fraternities, College
  • Fraternities, Collegiate
  • Fraternity, College
  • Fraternity, Collegiate
  • Greek Letter Organization
  • Greek Letter Society
  • Greek-Letter Organization
  • Greek-Letter Society
  • Organization, Greek Letter
  • Organization, Greek-Letter
  • Organizations, Greek Letter
  • Organizations, Greek-Letter
  • Societies, Greek Letter
  • Societies, Greek-Letter
  • Society, Greek Letter
  • Society, Greek-Letter
  • Sororities, College
  • Sororities, Collegiate
  • Sorority, College
  • Sorority, Collegiate

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9 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, ethics, history, legislation & jurisprudence, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. College Fraternities and Sororities. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D065822. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D065822
  2. College Fraternities and Sororities. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_fraternities_and_sororities
  3. College Fraternities and Sororities. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3721