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sis·ter
(sĭs′tər)n.
1. A female having the same parents as another or one parent in common with another.
2. A girl or woman who shares a common ancestry, allegiance, character, or purpose with another or others, specifically:
a. A kinswoman.
b. A woman fellow member, as of a sorority.
c. A fellow woman.
d. A close woman friend or companion.
e. A fellow African-American woman or girl.
f. A woman who advocates, fosters, or takes part in the feminist movement.
3. Informal Used as a form of address for a woman or girl.
4. Abbr. Sr. Ecclesiastical
a. A member of a religious order of women; a nun.
b. Used as a form of address for such a woman, alone or followed by the woman's name.
5. Chiefly British A nurse, especially the head nurse in a ward.
6. One identified as female and closely related to another: "the sisters Death and Night" (Walt Whitman).
7. Architecture A beam or other structural member affixed to another as a supplementary support.
adj.
1. Related by or as if by sisterhood; closely related: sister ships; sister cities.
2. Genetics Of or being one of an identical, related, or homologous pair: sister chromatids.
tr.v. sis·tered, sis·ter·ing, sis·ters
Architecture To affix a beam or other structural member to (another) as a supplementary support.
[Middle English, partially from Old Norse systir and partly from Old English sweostor; see swesor- in Indo-European roots.]
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sister
(ˈsɪstə)n
1. a female person having the same parents as another person
2. See half-sister, 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. (Medicine) a senior nurse
6. (Ecclesiastical Terms) chiefly RC Church a nun or a title given to a nun
7. (Ecclesiastical Terms) 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. (Biology) (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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sis•ter
(ˈsɪs tər)n.
1. a female offspring having both parents in common with another offspring; female sibling.
2. half sister.
3. stepsister.
4. a sister-in-law.
5. a woman or girl numbered in the same kinship group, nationality, race, church membership, society, etc., as another.
6. a thing regarded as female and associated as if by kinship with something else: The ships are sisters.
7.
a. a woman member of a religious order whose vows are not as absolute as a nun's.
b. (used as a title for a sister or a nun.)
8. Brit. a nurse in charge of a hospital ward; head nurse.
9. a form of address used to a woman or girl, esp. jocularly or contemptuously.
adj. 10. being or considered a sister; related by or as if by sisterhood.
11. being in close relationship with another: our sister city across the river.
12. being one of an identical pair.
[before 900; < Old Norse systir, c. Old English sweoster, Old Frisian, Old High German swester, Gothic swistar; akin to Latin soror (<*swesor), Old Irish siur, Skt svasar sister, Greek éor daughter, niece]
sis′ter•less, adj.
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| Noun | 1. |  sister - a female person who has the same parents as another person; "my sister married a musician"big sister - an older sister female sibling - a person's sister little sister - a younger sister blood brother, brother - a male with the same parents as someone else; "my brother still lives with our parents" |
| 2. | Sister - (Roman Catholic Church) a title given to a nun (and used as a form of address); "the Sisters taught her to love God" sisterhood - a religious society of women who live together as sisters (especially an order of nuns) Church of Rome, Roman Catholic Church, Roman Church, Western Church, Roman Catholic - the Christian Church based in the Vatican and presided over by a pope and an episcopal hierarchy nun - a woman religious | |
| 3. | sister - a female person who is a fellow member of a sorority or labor union or other group; "none of her sisters would betray her" sorority - a social club for female undergraduates fellow member, member - one of the persons who compose a social group (especially individuals who have joined and participate in a group organization); "only members will be admitted"; "a member of the faculty"; "she was introduced to all the members of his family" Beguine - (Roman Catholic Church) a member of a lay sisterhood (one of several founded in the Netherlands in the 12th and 13th centuries); though not taking religious vows the sisters followed an austere life | |
| 4. |  sister - (slang) sometimes used as a term of address for attractive young women |
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sister
noun
2. fellow woman, colleague, associate, comrade, compatriot Modern woman has been freed from many of the duties that befell her sisters in times past.
adjective
1. affiliated, allied, associated, joined, linked, connected, incorporated, confederated, federated a sister organization
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Translations
أُخْتأُخْت، شبيهَه، مُماثِلَة تماماراهِبَهعُضْوَه، أُخْت في مَجموعَهكَبيرَة المُمَرِّضات
сестра
germana
sestrastaniční sestrasesterský
søsterafdelingssygeplejerskenonne
flegistinofratinofratulino
õde
خواهر
sisarsisko
sestra
nővértestvér-apácaápolónőasszonytárs
suster
systirsystur-yfirhjúkrunarkona
姉妹
언니자매
soror
brolienėdvynysmošasesuosvainė
māsatā paša tipa-
călugăriţăsora
sestrastaničná sestra
sestra
sestraсестра
systermedsystersjuksköterskasjuksyster
พี่สาวหรือน้องสาว
сестра
chếchịemem gái
sister
[ˈsɪstəʳ]Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
sister
[ˈsɪstər] n
(= sibling) → sœur f
That's my little sister → Voilà ma petite sœur.
Have you got any brothers and sisters? → Vous avez des frères et des sœurs?
That's my little sister → Voilà ma petite sœur.
Have you got any brothers and sisters? → Vous avez des frères et des sœurs?
(= nun) → sœur f, bonne sœur f
(British) (= nurse) → infirmière f en chef
modif [newspaper] → appartenant au même groupe
sister organization → organisation f sœur
sister ship → sister-ship m, sistership m, navire m jumeau
sister organization → organisation f sœur
sister ship → sister-ship m, sistership m, navire m jumeau
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
sister
n
→ Schwester f; (in trade union) → Kollegin f; (= ship) → Schwesterschiff nt; to be sister to (form) or the sister of somebody → jds Schwester sein
(Brit: = senior nurse) → Oberschwester f
sister
in cpds → Schwester-;sister city
n (US) = twin town
sister company
n → Schwesterfirma f → or -gesellschaft f
sisterhood
n
→ Schwesterschaft f; she emphasized the sister of women all over the world → sie betonte, dass alle Frauen der ganzen Welt Schwestern seien
(Eccl) → Schwesternorden m
(= association of women) → Frauenvereinigung f
sister-in-law
n pl <sisters-in-law> → Schwägerin f
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Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
sister
(ˈsistə) noun1. the title given to a female child to describe her relationship to the other children of her parents. She's my sister; my father's sister.
2. a type of senior nurse. She's a sister on Ward 5.
3. a female member of a religious group.
4. a female fellow member of any group. We must fight for equal opportunities, sisters!
adjective closely similar in design, function etc. sister ships.
ˈsister-in-law – plural ˈsisters-in-law – noun1. the sister of one's husband or wife.
2. the wife of one's brother.
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.
sister
→ أُخْت sestra søster Schwester αδελφή hermana sisar sœur sestra sorella 姉妹 언니 zus søster siostra irmã сестра syster พี่สาวหรือน้องสาว kız kardeş em gái 姐妹Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009
sis·ter
n. hermana;
___ -in-law → cuñada.
English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012
sister
n hermanaEnglish-Spanish/Spanish-English Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.