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Sister
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- 1 A daughter of the same parents as another person; a female sibling.
"My sister is always driving me crazy."
- 2 Title of respect for an adult female member of a religious order.
"At the convent, Sister Grace supervises the kitchen."
- 3 a female person who is a fellow member of a sorority or labor union or other group wordnet
- 4 A female member of a religious order; especially one devoted to more active service; (informal) a nun.
"Michelle left behind her bank job and became a sister at the local convent."
- 5 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.
"Sister Huerta was to have been our initial speaker this morning. However, we received word later this morning that Sister Huerta would be unable to attend our convention."
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- 6 (Roman Catholic Church) a title given to a nun (and used as a form of address) wordnet
- 7 Any butterfly in the genus Adelpha, so named for the resemblance of the dark-colored wings to the black habit traditionally worn by nuns.
- 8 A title used to personify or respectfully refer to concepts or animals.
"Native American leader Chief Seattle urged ecological responsibility, referring to Brother Eagle and Sister Sky in his purported 1854 speech."
- 9 a female person who has the same parents as another person wordnet
- 10 A senior or supervisory nurse, often in a hospital. British
- 11 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.
"Connie was very close to her friend Judy and considered her to be her sister."
- 12 A black woman. capitalized, slang, sometimes
"A fly sister rolled in with a suitcase full of hip-hop novels called The Glamorous Life, and an African brother with long dreads wanted to sell them some incense and some fake Jacob watches."
- 13 A form of address to a woman. informal
"What’s up, sister?"
- 14 A female fellow member of a religious community, church, trades union etc.
"Thank you, sister. I would like to thank the sister who just spoke."
- 15 An entity that has a special or affectionate, non-hierarchical relationship with another. attributive
"sister publication"
- 16 A node in a data structure that shares its parent with another node.
- 17 Something in the same class. attributive, usually
"sister ships"
- 18 One of two tornados that form in close proximity at the same time or in quick succession.
- 1 To strengthen (a supporting beam) by fastening a second beam alongside it. transitive
"I’m trying to correct my sagging floor by sistering the joists."
- 2 To be sister to; to resemble closely. obsolete, transitive
"Deep clerks she dumbs; and with her needle composes Nature's own shape, of bud, bird, branch, or berry, That even her art sisters the natural roses; Her inkle, silk, twin with the rubied cherry"
Etymology
PIE word *swésōr From Middle English sister, suster, from Old English swustor, sweoster, sweostor (“sister, nun”); from Proto-Germanic *swestēr (“sister”), from Proto-Indo-European *swésōr (“sister”). Doublet of soror. Cognate with Scots sister, syster (“sister”), West Frisian sus, suster (“sister”), Dutch zuster (“sister”), German Schwester (“sister”), Norwegian Bokmål søster (“sister”), Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish syster (“sister”), Icelandic systir (“sister”), Gothic 𐍃𐍅𐌹𐍃𐍄𐌰𐍂 (swistar, “sister”), Latin soror (“sister”), Russian сестра́ (sestrá, “sister”), Lithuanian sesuo (“sister”), Albanian vajzë (“girl, maiden”), Sanskrit स्वसृ (svásṛ, “sister”), Persian خواهر (xâhar, “sister”). In standard English, the form with i is due to contamination with Old Norse systir (“sister”). The plural sistren is from Middle English sistren, a variant plural of sister, suster (“sister”); compare brethren. The sense for "Adelpha-genus butterfly" is a semantic loan from translingual Adelpha, itself from Ancient Greek ἀδελφή (adelphḗ, “sister”).
PIE word *swésōr From Middle English sister, suster, from Old English swustor, sweoster, sweostor (“sister, nun”); from Proto-Germanic *swestēr (“sister”), from Proto-Indo-European *swésōr (“sister”). Doublet of soror. Cognate with Scots sister, syster (“sister”), West Frisian sus, suster (“sister”), Dutch zuster (“sister”), German Schwester (“sister”), Norwegian Bokmål søster (“sister”), Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish syster (“sister”), Icelandic systir (“sister”), Gothic 𐍃𐍅𐌹𐍃𐍄𐌰𐍂 (swistar, “sister”), Latin soror (“sister”), Russian сестра́ (sestrá, “sister”), Lithuanian sesuo (“sister”), Albanian vajzë (“girl, maiden”), Sanskrit स्वसृ (svásṛ, “sister”), Persian خواهر (xâhar, “sister”). In standard English, the form with i is due to contamination with Old Norse systir (“sister”). The plural sistren is from Middle English sistren, a variant plural of sister, suster (“sister”); compare brethren. The sense for "Adelpha-genus butterfly" is a semantic loan from translingual Adelpha, itself from Ancient Greek ἀδελφή (adelphḗ, “sister”).
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