half-sistern.

Etymology: Not recorded in Old English, though healf-sweostor was probably in use: compare Middle High German halpswester (German halbschwester), Swedish halfsyster, Danish halvsöster.

1. A sister by one parent only.

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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > sibling > sister > [noun] > half-sister

half-sisterc1275

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 4195 He wes his hælue-suster sune.

c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 2464 Arthureȝ half-suster, Þe duches doȝter of Tyntagelle.

c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) xxv. 120 Half sisters of þer fader syde wedd þai.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 228/2 Halfe suster, sevr uterine.

1868 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest II. App. 587 The elder Countess Adelaide has been commonly taken to be only a half-sister of William.

fig.1842 Tennyson Love thou thy Land in Poems (new ed.) I. 229 Raw Haste, half-sister to Delay.1872 O. W. Holmes Poet at Breakfast-table (1885) v. 118 The genius for religion..is half-sister to the genius for music.

†2. A lay sister in a convent. Obs.

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society > faith > church government > laity > lay brother or sister > [noun] > lay sister

half-sister?1484

convert sister1640

lay sister1709

?1484 Will of Margaret Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 385 Ich hole and half susters at Normans in Norwich.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online September 2016).

单词	half-sister
释义	half-sistern. Etymology: Not recorded in Old English, though healf-sweostor was probably in use: compare Middle High German halpswester (German halbschwester), Swedish halfsyster, Danish halvsöster. 1. A sister by one parent only. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > sibling > sister > [noun] > half-sister half-sisterc1275 c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 4195 He wes his hælue-suster sune. c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 2464 Arthureȝ half-suster, Þe duches doȝter of Tyntagelle. c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) xxv. 120 Half sisters of þer fader syde wedd þai. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 228/2 Halfe suster, sevr uterine. 1868 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest II. App. 587 The elder Countess Adelaide has been commonly taken to be only a half-sister of William. fig.1842 Tennyson Love thou thy Land in Poems (new ed.) I. 229 Raw Haste, half-sister to Delay.1872 O. W. Holmes Poet at Breakfast-table (1885) v. 118 The genius for religion..is half-sister to the genius for music. †2. A lay sister in a convent. Obs. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > laity > lay brother or sister > [noun] > lay sister half-sister?1484 convert sister1640 lay sister1709 ?1484 Will of Margaret Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 385 Ich hole and half susters at Normans in Norwich. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online September 2016). < n.c1275
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