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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