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Sister

[sis-ter]

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noun

a female offspring having both parents in common with another offspring; female sibling.

Also called half sister. a female offspring having only one parent in common with another offspring.

stepsister.

a female friend or protector regarded as a sister.

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.

a female member of a religious community that observes the simple vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience.

British. a nurse in charge of a hospital ward; head nurse.

a fellow black woman.

10.

a woman who supports, promotes, or participates in feminism.

11.

Informal. a form of address used to a woman or girl, especially jocularly or contemptuously: Listen, sister, you've had enough.

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adjective

12.

being or considered a sister; related by or as if by sisterhood: sister ships.

13.

having a close relationship with another because of shared interests, problems, or the like: We correspond with school children in our sister city.

14.

Biochemistry. being one of an identical pair.

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Origin:
before 900; Middle English (noun) < Old Norse systir; cognate with Old English sweoster, Dutch zuster, German Schwester, Gothic swistar; akin to Serbo-Croatian sèstra, Lithuanian sesuõ, Latin soror (< *swesor), Old Irish siur, Welsh chwaer, Sanskrit svasar sister, Greek éor daughter, niece

Related forms

sis·ter·less, adjective

sis·ter·like, adjective

non·sis·ter, noun, adjective

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Example Sentences

She agreed to carry a baby for her sister and then offered to carry another.

My dad called this morning to tell me that my sister and brother-in-law's house burned to the ground last night.

He is mourning his mother's recent death and throughout he is haunted by memories of her and of his dead sister and father.

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She agreed to carry a baby for her sister and then offered to carry another.

My dad called this morning to tell me that my sister and brother-in-law's house burned to the ground last night.

He is mourning his mother's recent death and throughout he is haunted by memories of her and of his dead sister and father.

None of the men, therefore, had summited with a sister.

My sister gets exasperated with having to repeat what she tells me so many times.

My sister points the finger at my brother, who is my prime suspect this year.

My sister and brother-in-law are suitably awestruck.

In the latest episode of scientific gene-twisting, a horse births a foal cloned as her genetic twin sister.

My sister was the officially crazy one, but really we.

My husband refuses to play enabler, and my sister picks up on this and resents him for it.

At eight he would produce the gun when he wanted his sister to change the channel from a soap opera to a cartoon.

Tell me a tale about animals who really are people and make a sister sad.

My sister has bi-polar and my mom takes care of her now.

Stegosaurs and ankylosaurs were sister groups and, together with their.

Because it's flatter than its sister islands, one of the best things to do here is.

Yesterday he rather astutely helped my mother and sister install a towel rack.

My sister didn't want me to marry an academic and move to the boondocks.

The former prime minister on his trial, how his sister could win the upcoming elections and when he will end his exile.

Instead, experts say, the skull likely belongs to a sister or precursor species to modern humans.

Even his sister tends to require more and increased stimuli for information to make an impact.

My little sister jumping out of her swing in mid air.

Her parents and older sister have been with her at the hospital.

Most of them admitted women only reluctantly, sometimes by annihilating sister schools.

So he set his mind to create the game, and then me and my sister helped with the instructions.

How about using the spin vector to help locate our sister star.

My sister took lessons, and she would practice every once in a while and she would hate.

He saw his three big brothers and sister out there and he didn't want to miss out on the fun.

My sister probably has borderline personality disorder.

She would often throw screaming fits and attack her sister.

My late grandfather owns a violin my sister said its a stradi copy.

My grandmother and her sister have been making and sharing jung every year for some four seven decades.

Like its sister publications, it will make research articles available for free online by charging authors to publish.

Maybe he threatened to kill her sister back in the real world, etc.

Emma i agree with u i would give this to my little sister sabrina.

My sister has the lesions that come with migraines and is an even more extreme case.

Not a severe case, but my sister had a pretty severe case.

It meant that he and his sister could play without getting in each other's way in the game.

When they found the pocketknife, they allowed her to hand it back to my sister to keep until she came back.

My little sister was being pushed higher and higher the face of uncertainty was.

My mother came to see my sister twice and her stroke damaged arm looked better each time.

Mary's brother would become an upholsterer, leaving fossil hunting to his sister.

My older daughter designs her minifig while little sister looks on.

However, my sister was a barefoot sprinter and high jumper in high school back in the seventies.

When my sister investigated she found that people were complaining then about the chemicals involved.

My grandfather's mother's sister was engaged to the colonel at the time of his death.

My conventionally beautiful but average sister attracts every awful egomaniac on the planet.

My older sister and neice also has sarcoid and it affects all of us in different ways.

Having a brother or sister with one of the psychiatric conditions also upped a person's odds of having both disorders.

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World English Dictionary

sister (ˈsɪstə)

—n
1.	a female person having the same parents as another person
2.	half-sister See stepsister
3.	a female person who belongs to the same group, trade union, etc, as another or others
4.	informal a form of address to a woman or girl, used esp by Black people in the US
5.	a senior nurse
6.	chiefly RC Church a nun or a title given to a nun
7.	a woman fellow member of a Church or religious body
8.	(modifier) belonging to the same class, fleet, etc, as another or others: a sister ship
9.	(modifier) biology denoting any of the cells or cell components formed by division of a parent cell or cell component: sister nuclei

[Old English sweostor; related to Old Norse systir, Old High German swester, Gothic swistar]

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Word Origin & History

sister

O.E. sweostor, swuster, or a Scand. cognate (cf. O.N. systir, Swed. sister, Dan. søster), in either case from P.Gmc. *swestr- (cf. O.S. swestar, O.Fris. swester, M.Du. suster, Du. zuster, O.H.G. swester, Ger. Schwester, Goth. swistar), from PIE *swesor, one of the most persistent and unchanging

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PIE root words, recognizable in almost every modern I.E. language (cf. Skt. svasar-, Avestan shanhar-, L. soror, O.C.S., Rus. sestra, Lith. sesuo, O.Ir. siur, Welsh chwaer, Gk. eor). Probably from PIE roots *swe- "one's own" + *ser- "woman." For vowel evolution, see bury. Used of nuns in O.E.; of a woman in general from 1906; of a black woman from 1926; and in the sense of "fellow feminist" from 1912.

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Slang Dictionary

sister definition

n.
a (female) friend. (Originally underworld. Sometimes a term of address.) : Come here, sister. I gotta have a word with you.
n.
a fellow sorority member. : One of my sisters let me borrow her car.
n.
a fellow feminist. : We can do this thing, sisters, we can do it!
Go to (soul) sister. :

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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(soul) sister definition

n.
a black person's female, black friend. (See also sister.) : One of the soul sisters dropped by to talk.

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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"Younger sisters are almost different beings from elder ones, but thank God it is quite and unaffectedly without repining or envy that I see my elder sister gad about and visit, etc.—when I rest at home."

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