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Definition sister

Etymology

From Middle English sister, suster, partly from Old Norse systir (“sister”) and partly from Old English swustor, sweoster, sweostor (“sister, nun”); both from Proto-Germanic *swest?r (“sister”), from Proto-Indo-European *swés?r (“sister”). 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 ??????? (swistar, “sister”), Latin soror (“sister”), Russian ??????? (sestrá, “sister”), Lithuanian sesuo (“sister”), Albanian vajzë (“girl, maiden”), Sanskrit ????? (svás?, “sister”), Persian ?????‎ (xâhar, “sister”).

The plural sistren is from Middle English sistren, a variant plural of sister, suster (“sister”); compare brethren.

Noun

sister (plural sisters or (archaic in most senses) sistren)

1. A daughter of the same parents as another person; a female sibling.
2. A female member of a religious order; especially one devoted to more active service; (informal) a nun.
3. Any butterfly in the genus Adelpha, so named for the resemblance of the dark-colored wings to the black habit traditionally worn by nuns.
4. (Britain) A senior or supervisory nurse, often in a hospital.
5. Any woman or girl with whom a bond is felt through common membership of a race, profession, religion or organization, such as feminism.
6. (slang) A black woman.
7. (informal) A form of address to a woman.
8. A woman, in certain labour or socialist circles; also as a form of address.
9. (attributively) An entity that has a special or affectionate, non-hierarchical relationship with another.
10. (computing theory) A node in a data structure that shares its parent with another node.
11. (usually attributively) Something in the same class.

Verb

sister (third-person singular simple present sisters, present participle sistering, simple past and past participle sistered)

1. (transitive, construction) To strengthen (a supporting beam) by fastening a second beam alongside it.
2. (obsolete, transitive) To be sister to; to resemble closely.

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