单词 | sister |
释义 | Word Frequency sister(ˈsɪstə) noun 1. a female person having the same parents as another person 2. half-sister, stepsister 3. a female person who belongs to the same group, trade union, etc, as another or others 4. informal a form of address to a woman or girl, used esp by Black people in the US 5. a senior nurse 6. mainly Roman Catholic Church a nun or a title given to a nun 7. a woman fellow member of a Church or religious body 8. (modifier) belonging to the same class, fleet, etc, as another or others a sister ship 9. (modifier) biology denoting any of the cells or cell components formed by division of a parent cell or cell component sister nuclei Word origin Old English sweostor; related to Old Norse systir, Old High German swester, Gothic swistar |
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