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.

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