sister
IPA: sˈɪstɝ
noun
- A daughter of the same parents as another person; a female sibling.
- A female member of a religious order; especially one devoted to more active service; (informal) a nun.
- Any butterfly in the genus Adelpha, so named for the resemblance of the dark-colored wings to the black habit traditionally worn by nuns.
- (Britain) A senior or supervisory nurse, often in a hospital.
- Any woman or girl with whom a bond is felt through the same biological sex, gender or common membership in a community, race, profession, religion, organization, or ism.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang, sometimes capitalized) A black woman.
- (informal) A form of address to a woman.
- A woman, in certain religious, labour or socialist circles; also as a form of address.
- (attributively) An entity that has a special or affectionate, non-hierarchical relationship with another.
- (computing theory) A node in a data structure that shares its parent with another node.
- (usually attributively) Something in the same class.
- Title of respect for an adult female member of a religious order.
- Title of respect for an adult female member of a fraternal/sororal organization, or comrade in a movement, or even a stranger using fictive kin.
- A title used to personify or respectfully refer to concepts or animals.
verb
- (transitive, construction) To strengthen (a supporting beam) by fastening a second beam alongside it.
- (obsolete, transitive) To be sister to; to resemble closely.
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Examples of "sister" in Sentences
- She is disappointed at her sister.
- She is the youngest of the sisters.
- It is part of the Convent of the Sisters of Zion.
- Attention shifted from the brother to his ailing sister.
- The sisters came from an accomplished and nonconformist family.
- My sister once told me that I am the trailblazer of our family.
- Andrey is the only boy in the family and the sisters idolize him.
- "_And down in the big, red chair big sister plunks little sister_" 12
- The brother represents the instinctive and the sister the rational side.
- Sunny and her sister and brother go to live with Jerome and Esme Squalor.
- He was raised in a ditch along with his other inbred brothers and sisters.
- She cringed at the sound of the word sister coming out in a taunting voice.
- He sighs, and wishes that Heaven had blessed him with such a sister -- for _sister_, read wife.
- Who wants to tell him that rubbing one off to a picture of his twin sister is just plain wrong?
- The word sister tore across my hearing—Victoria, with her big sunglasses and flashy ring, out of place inside the little shop in her summery black dress.
- While she continues to climb the corporate ranks, her beloved twin sister is plagued by a chronic illness that will eventually kill her, leaving Rachel all alone.
- An old friend I haven’t heard from in a LONG time (and whom I still need to call back), my sister, a friend of the family, my other sister no time to cry, no time to give in.
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