Sister Definition & Meaning
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noun
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a female offspring having both parents in common with another offspring; female sibling.
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Also called half sister. a female offspring having only one parent in common with another offspring.
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stepsister.
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a female friend or protector regarded as a sister.
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a thing regarded as feminine and associated as if by kinship with something else.
The ships are sisters.
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a female fellow member, as of a church.
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a female member of a religious community that observes the simple vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience.
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British. a nurse in charge of a hospital ward; head nurse.
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Informal. a term used to refer to or address a fellow Black woman; soul sister.
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a woman who supports, promotes, or participates in feminism.
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Informal. a form of address used to a woman or girl, especially jocularly or contemptuously.
Listen, sister, you've had enough.
adjective
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being or considered a sister; related by or as if by sisterhood.
sister ships.
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having a close relationship with another because of shared interests, problems, or the like.
We correspond with school children in our sister city.
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Biochemistry. being one of an identical pair.
noun
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a female person having the same parents as another person
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See half-sister stepsister
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a female person who belongs to the same group, trade union, etc, as another or others
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informal a form of address to a woman or girl, used esp by Black people in the US
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a senior nurse
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RC Church a nun or a title given to a nun
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a woman fellow member of a Church or religious body
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(modifier) belonging to the same class, fleet, etc, as another or others
a sister ship
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(modifier) biology denoting any of the cells or cell components formed by division of a parent cell or cell component
sister nuclei
Other Word Forms
- nonsister noun
- sisterless adjective
- sisterlike adjective
Etymology
Origin of sister
First recorded before 900; Middle English (noun) from Old Norse systir; cognate with Old English sweoster, Dutch zuster, German Schwester, Gothic swistar; akin to Serbo-Croatian sèstra, Lithuanian sesuõ, Latin soror (from unattested swesor ), Old Irish siur, Welsh chwaer, Sanskrit svasar “sister,” Greek éor “daughter, niece”
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Her baby sister gurgling helplessly in the background isn’t the only one utterly dependent on her maternal care.
From Los Angeles Times
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“I’m Russell Blythe, by the way. My rude sister didn’t introduce us.”
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She believes young women are capable, deserving of independence, but she’s still my father’s younger sister, still responsible for me.
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The only person Pooneh, who lives in London, can contact is her sister - "maybe because she is more comfortable with technology and finds ways to make the call", she explains.
From BBC
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A black and white photograph taken in 1953, shows the late Queen sitting on a bench with the King and his sister Anne, now the Princess Royal, at Balmoral, Scotland.
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Related Words
- relative
- twin
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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