Usually means: Marriage to deceased wife's sister.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. sororate: Merriam-Webster
  2. sororate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. sororate: Collins English Dictionary
  4. sororate: Wiktionary
  5. sororate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  6. sororate: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. sororate: Dictionary.com
  8. Sororate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. sororate: Grandiloquent Dictionary
  10. sororate: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. sororate: Legal dictionary
  2. sororate: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sororate: Encyclopedia

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (sororate)

noun:  The custom of the marriage of a man to the sister of his wife, usually after the wife has died.
noun:  A marriage according to this custom.

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