Definition of "sister"
- noun
A daughter of the same parents as another person; a female sibling.
A female member of a religious community; a nun.
A senior or supervisory nurse, often in a hospital.
Any woman or girl with whom a bond is felt through common membership of a race, profession, religion or organization, such as feminism.
A black woman.
A form of address to a woman.
A woman, in certain labour or socialist circles; also as a form of address.
Of or relating to an entity that has a special or affectionate, non-hierachical relationship with another.
In the same class.
- verb
To strengthen (a supporting beam) by fastening a second beam alongside it.
To be sister to; to resemble closely.
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