Definitions for Sister

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Sister sis·ter

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IPA: /ˈsɪs tər/

Sister is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 112 anagrams from letters in Sister (eirsst).

Definitions for Sister

noun

1. a female offspring having both parents in common with another offspring; female sibling.
2. Also called half sister. a female offspring having only one parent in common with another offspring.
3. stepsister.
4. a female friend or protector regarded as a sister.
5. a thing regarded as feminine and associated as if by kinship with something else:
6. a female fellow member, as of a church.
7. a female member of a religious community that observes the simple vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience.
8. British. a nurse in charge of a hospital ward; head nurse.
9. a fellow black woman.
10. a woman who supports, promotes, or participates in feminism.
11. Informal. a form of address used to a woman or girl, especially jocularly or contemptuously:

adjective

1. being or considered a sister; related by or as if by sisterhood:
2. having a close relationship with another because of shared interests, problems, or the like:
3. Biochemistry. being one of an identical pair.

Origin of Sister

before 900; Middle English (noun) Old Norse systir; cognate with Old English sweoster, Dutch zuster, German Schwester, Gothic swistar; akin to Serbo-Croatian sèstra, Lithuanian sesuõ, Latin s

Examples for Sister

The unit is used to attack foreign networks, and either it or a sister organization was involved in the Sony hack.

You wouldn't turn out your sister's son, would you, Uncle Paul?

She and her sister went into business together in 1997, opening Curve Salon after a career in media.

It's the Viluca—Mr. Bines, you know; he's bringing his sister back to me.

Because especially my sister is not capable of doing the stuff that he is accusing her of doing.

On his death-bed he charged his nephew to protect and cherish me as a sister.

"But his sitting there eating in that—that shirt—" said his sister.

"They needn't eat their lunch that way," declared his sister.

She told TIME magazine in 1987 that Crawford was the “sister I never had.”

And that solution came from a homemade brew Branch and her sister created together.