sister

IPA: sˈɪstɝ

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.

(transitive, construction) To strengthen (a supporting beam) by fastening a second beam alongside it.
(obsolete, transitive) To be sister to; to resemble closely.

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.