Definitions for Sister
ˈsɪs tərsis·ter

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. sister, sisnoun

   a female person who has the same parents as another person

   "my sister married a musician"

2. Sisternoun

   (Roman Catholic Church) a title given to a nun (and used as a form of address)

   "the Sisters taught her to love God"

3. sisternoun

   a female person who is a fellow member of a sorority or labor union or other group

   "none of her sisters would betray her"

4. baby, babe, sisternoun

   (slang) sometimes used as a term of address for attractive young women

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. sisternoun

   a daughter of the same parents as another person; a female sibling.

   My sister is always driving me crazy.

2. sisternoun

   a female member of a religious community; a nun.

   Please welcome Sister Smith as she moves from her former congregation to her new congregation.

3. sisternoun

   a senior or supervisory nurse, often in a hospital.

   Native American leader Chief Seattle urged ecological responsibility, referring to Brother Eagle and Sister Sky in his purported 1854 speech.

4. sisternoun

   any woman or girl with whom a bond is felt through common membership of a race, profession, religion or organization, such as feminism.

   Connie was very close to her friend Judy and considered her to be her sister.

5. sisternoun

   a black woman

6. sisternoun

   a form of address to a woman

7. sisternoun

   a woman, in certain labour or socialist circles; also as a form of address.

8. sisternoun

   Of or relating to an entity that has a special or affectionate, non-hierachical relationship with another.

   sister publication, sister city, sister projects

9. sisternoun

   In the same class.

   sister ships, sister facility

10. sisterverb

    To strengthen (a supporting beam) by fastening a second beam alongside it.

    I'm trying to correct my sagging floor by sistering the joists.

11. Sisternoun

    Title of respect for an adult female member of a religious or fraternal order.

    My sister is always driving me crazy.

12. Sisternoun

    Formal title for any female member of a religious or fraternal organization. (Compare Miss.)

    Please welcome Sister Smith as she moves from her former congregation to her new congregation.

13. Sisternoun

    An informal title used as part of another moniker:

    Native American leader Chief Seattle urged ecological responsibility, referring to Brother Eagle and Sister Sky in his purported 1854 speech.

14. Etymology: From sister, suster, partly from systir and partly from swustor, sweostor; both from swestēr, from swésōr. Cognate with sister, syster, suster, zuster, Schwester, syster, systir,, soror, сестра, sesuo, Albanian vajzë,.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Sisternoun

   Etymology: sweoster , Saxon; zuster, Dutch.

   1. A woman born of the same parents; correlative to brother.

   Her sister began to scold. William Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew.

   I have said to corruption, thou art my father: to the worm, thou art my mother and my sister. Job. xvii. 14.

   2. One of the same faith; a christian. One of the same nature, human being.

   If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of food, and you say unto them, depart in peace, be you warmed and filled: notwithstanding you give them not those things which are needful to the body, what doth it profit? James ii. 15.

   3. A woman of the same kind.

   He chid the sisters,
   And bade them speak to him. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.

   4. One of the same kind; one of the same office.

   The women, who would rather wrest the laws,
   Than let a sister-plaintiff lose the cause,
   As judges on the bench more gracious are,
   And more attent to brothers of the bar,
   Cry’d one and all, the suppliant should have right:
   And to the grandame hag adjudg’d the knight. Dryden.

   There grew two olives, closest of the grove,
   With roots entwin’d, and branches interwove:
   Alike their leaves, but not alike they smil’d
   With sister-fruits: one fertile, one was wild. Alexander Pope.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Sister

   Sister Ray" is a song by the Velvet Underground that closes side two of their 1968 album White Light/White Heat. The lyrics are by Lou Reed, with music composed by John Cale, Sterling Morrison, Maureen Tucker and Reed. The song concerns drug use, violence, homosexuality, and transvestism. Reed said of the lyrics: "'Sister Ray' was done as a joke—no, not as a joke, but it has eight characters in it and this guy gets killed and nobody does anything. It was built around this story that I wrote about this scene of total debauchery and decay. I like to think of 'Sister Ray' as a transvestite smack dealer. The situation is a bunch of drag queens taking some sailors home with them, shooting up on smack and having this orgy when the police appear."At 17 minutes 29 seconds, it is the longest song on White Light/White Heat, taking up most of the second side of the record, as well as the longest song in the Velvet Underground's studio discography.

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1. sister

   A sister is a female sibling, sharing at least one parent in common, or a female who is bonded by affection, friendship, or loyalty.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. Sisternoun

   a female who has the same parents with another person, or who has one of them only. In the latter case, she is more definitely called a half sister. The correlative of brother

2. Sisternoun

   a woman who is closely allied to, or assocciated with, another person, as in the sdame faith, society, order, or community

3. Sisternoun

   one of the same kind, or of the same condition; -- generally used adjectively; as, sister fruits

4. Sisterverb

   to be sister to; to resemble closely

5. Etymology: [OE. sister, fr. Icel. systir; also suster, from AS. sweostor, sweoster, swuster, akin to OFries. sweester, suster, LG. sster, suster, D. zuster, OS. & OHG. swestar, G. schwester, Icel. systir, Sw. syster, Dan. sster, Goth. swistar, Lith. ses, Russ. sestra, Pol. siostra, L. soror, Skr. svasr. 298. Cf. Cousin.]

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1. Sister

   Sister is the fourth studio album by American alternative rock band Sonic Youth. It was released in June 1987, through record label SST. The album furthers the band's move away from no wave towards more traditional song structures, while maintaining an aggressively experimental approach. The album was re-issued in 2011 on 180gram purple-marble vinyl. Like their previous records, Sister wasn't very successful at the time but later on in their career it has been heavily praised by critics, Slant Magazine called it "the last great punk album of the Reagan era, and the first great pop album to emerge from the American underground" listing the album at number seventy-two in its list of the best albums of the 1980s. and Pitchfork Media listed Sister as the fourteenth best album of the 1980s.

Rap DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. sister

   (noun) Woman of the same group; friend; female sibling.

Editors ContributionRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. sisternoun

   A person's soul of a brother or brother in law. 1.) a woman or girl in relation to other daughters and sons of her parents. A sister-in-law. A close female friend or associate, especially a female fellow member of a labor union or other organization. A member of a religious order or congregation of women.

   My sister always brings me hope in my struggle against the liars opposed against me.

   Etymology: Sibling

   
   

   Submitted by Tehorah_Elyon on April 20, 2024  

Matched Categories

1. • Roman Catholic
   • Member
   • Nun

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Sister' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1442

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Sister' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1197

3. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Sister' in Nouns Frequency: #476

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Anagrams for Sister »

1. resist

2. resits

3. risest

4. restis

How to pronounce Sister?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say Sister in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Sister in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Sister in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of Sister in a Sentence

1. Barbara Ledermann:

   I was exactly the right age to be on my own. If I had been younger, like my sister, I would have stayed with my parents. If I were older, with children, I just don’t know how I could have done it.

2. Blade:

   Dr. Karen Jenson Vampires like you aren't a species, you're just infected, a virus, a sexually transmitted disease. Frost I'll tell you what we are, sister. We're the top of the f***ing food chain.

3. Brittany Daniel:

   … My sister made my dreams come true.

4. Chad Brackeen:

   It's been three and a half years in court, and we have not been able to finalize that adoption, our children are young, our oldest is 13, the baby sister is 4 and a half. So, to some degree, only the oldest are fully aware of what we're going through.

5. Aftab Pureval:

   These were innocent, peaceful civilians in a nation that had shown no aggression, subjected to an unjustifiable and unprovoked attack by Russian military forces, since 1989 Kharkiv has been a sister city to Cincinnati and residents have exchanged ideas, educational opportunities and collaborative projects on culture, medicine and human rights.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Sister
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Sister
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=Sister
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sister
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Sister
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Sister
8. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Sister