Definitions for sister
ˈsɪs tərsis·ter

Princeton's WordNet(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

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

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

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 Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

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.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

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 Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. sister

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

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

Anagrams for sister »

1. resist

2. resits

3. risest

4. restis

How to pronounce sister?

1. Alex

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   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

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   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

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   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

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   Wendy

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   Fred

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   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. Scott Amos:

   I probably did ask for it for Christmas, or my sister [ did ], that's a debate in my family, who it was really meant for.

2. Lisa LaBoo:

   She was a beautiful person on the inside and the outside, she was a dedicated mother, daughter, sister and friend to many, and we miss her very dearly.

3. Tom Marshburn:

   People have problems on Earth, on orbit, we are one crew, and I think ISS is like a symbol of the friendship, cooperation( and) our flexible future of exploration of space. Thank you very much, my crew members. You are like my space brothers and space sister.

4. Mari Osaka:

   It is a bit weird that I have to give her advice and she is my older sister, but she has been doing like newbie mistakes.

5. Cathy Goldsmith:

   The brother and sister in the book are the same as those in his bestselling Beginner Book 'One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish,' which was published in 1960.

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