Clues for the word "SORT"

We've had 233 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 717 times in crosswords. It was last seen in LA Times crossword on March 10, 2026.

Definition of sort

n. - Chance; lot; destiny.
n. - A kind or species; any number or collection of individual persons or things characterized by the same or like qualities; a class or order; as, a sort of men; a sort of horses; a sort of trees; a sort of poems.
n. - Manner; form of being or acting.
n. - Condition above the vulgar; rank.
n. - A chance group; a company of persons who happen to be together; a troop; also, an assemblage of animals.
n. - A pair; a set; a suit.
n. - Letters, figures, points, marks, spaces, or quadrats, belonging to a case, separately considered.
v. t. - To separate, and place in distinct classes or divisions, as things having different qualities; as, to sort cloths according to their colors; to sort wool or thread according to its fineness.
v. t. - To reduce to order from a confused state.
v. t. - To conjoin; to put together in distribution; to class.
v. t. - To choose from a number; to select; to cull.
v. t. - To conform; to adapt; to accommodate.
v. i. - To join or associate with others, esp. with others of the same kind or species; to agree.
v. i. - To suit; to fit; to be in accord; to harmonize.