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soke

/soʊk/ US
/səʊk/ UK

Sounds like soak · Rhymes with -əʊk

Where it comes from

From Middle English soke, from Medieval Latin (Anglo-Latin) sōca "right of jurisdiction", from Old English sōcn (“jurisdiction, prosecution”, literally “act of seeking”), from Proto-West Germanic *sōkni, from Proto-Germanic *sōkniz (“seeking, inquiry”), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂g- (“to track”).

Cognates: see English soken. More at sake, seek.

noun sokes · soc · sock

England, historical A soc (a medieval right to hold a court or to receive fines).
England, historical A district under a particular jurisdiction.

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@misc{soke_2026,
  title = {soke},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/soke},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}