sister

Pronunciation: /ˈsɪs.tə(ɹ)/

The English word “sister” has 14 meanings listed here.

noun

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.
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.
A black woman.
A form of address to a woman.
A female fellow member of a religious community, church, trades union etc.
An entity that has a special or affectionate, non-hierarchical relationship with another.
A node in a data structure that shares its parent with another node.
Something in the same class.
One of two tornados that form in close proximity at the same time or in quick succession.

verb

To strengthen (a supporting beam) by fastening a second beam alongside it.
To be sister to; to resemble closely.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English suster, from Old English sweostor, from Proto-West Germanic *swester, from Proto-Germanic *swestēr, from Proto-Indo-European *swésōr. 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…

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