Sort People Problems Type Noun Sɔːt Sɔːrt Music

• ‘what sort of music do you like?’ ‘oh, all sorts.’
• this sort of problem is quite common./these sorts of problems are quite common.
• he's the sort of person who only cares about money.
• the sort/sorts of people who are having large families in the us and ireland are very similar.

sort

1. a group or type of people or things that are similar in a particular way
• SYNONYM kind
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• ‘What sort of music do you like?’ ‘Oh, all sorts.’
• This sort of problem is quite common./These sorts of problems are quite common.
• He's the sort of person who only cares about money.
• The sort/sorts of people who are having large families in the US and Ireland are very similar.
• For dessert there's a fruit pie of some sort (= you are not sure what kind).
• Most people went on training courses of one sort or another (= of various types) last year.
• There were snacks—peanuts, olives, that sort of thing.
• There are all sorts of activities (= many different ones) for kids at the campsite.
• What sort of price did you want to pay? (= approximately how much)
• What sort of time do you call this? (= I'm very angry that you have come so late.)
• Statements like these are not the sort of stuff you'd expect from one of Australia's most powerful women.
• Tracey has been causing her mother all sorts of problems (= many different ones).

Extra Examples

• He has been doing the same sort of thing for decades.
• You get to go to all sorts of places.
• It will be a different sort of challenge from last year.
• We will not tolerate this sort of behaviour.
• He just keeps asking all sorts of questions.
2. a particular type of person
• My brother would never cheat on his wife; he's not that sort.
3. the process of putting data in a particular order
• to do a sort
4. used to say that you think somebody’s behaviour is very strange or unusual but that everyone is different and likes different things
• ‘They spent their honeymoon mountain climbing.’ ‘Oh well, it takes all sorts!’
5. used to emphasize that the situation is very different from what has been said
• ‘I was terrible!’ ‘You were nothing of the sort.’
6. used when you are saying that something is not a good example of a particular type of thing
• He offered us an apology of sorts.
7. ill or upset
• She was tired and out of sorts by the time she arrived home.
• Are you feeling all right? You look a bit out of sorts.
8. to some extent but in a way that you cannot easily describe
• She sort of pretends that she doesn't really care.
• ‘Do you understand?’ ‘Sort of.’
9. used for describing something in a not very exact way
• I had a sort of feeling that he wouldn't come.
• She was jumping around like some sort of kangaroo.
• They're a sort of greenish-blue colour.
• I was glad about it afterwards, in a funny sort of way.

Word Origin

• late Middle English: from Old French sorte, from an alteration of Latin sors, sort- ‘lot, condition’.