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Definition of sister in English: sisternounˈsɪstəˈsɪstər 1A woman or girl in relation to other daughters and sons of her parents. I had nine brothers and sisters Example sentencesExamples - He enjoys every moment at home with his parents, brothers and sisters and he also spent some time at his favourite pastime, fishing.
- The bridesmaid was sister of the bride Amanda, and the best man was David Duffy.
- Three educational institutions have adopted two brothers and a sister who lost their parents in a tragic fire accident.
- Looking down, I was delighted to see my four-year old baby sister, Zoe.
- He and his younger twin sister had sneaked out of the palace many times, disguised as peasants.
- The brothers and four sisters lived with their parents in Car Bank Square.
- Elianne's parents, two sisters and brother will be going to see her tread the boards and there is plenty of time for you to see the play as it is on until March 15.
- An extremely quiet and gentle girl she went to Dublin with her sister after their parents passed away.
- She grew roses at her family home and they were a constant reminder of her happy years growing up with her brothers and sisters and her parents.
- I witnessed the complete joy and ecstasy on family members faces as their son's or daughters, brothers or sisters strode out proudly with the best in the world and took part in sport.
- Hours before they were removed one of the children had pleaded: ‘Don't take me and my brothers and sisters away from our parents.’
- There was one room for my nine brothers and sisters and my parents.
- Sadly, it is our sons and daughters, brothers and sisters, who must pay the price when a deal goes bad.
- The operation was a success and Claudia was discharged in time to spend Christmas at home with her parents and three older sisters.
- The girl that plays my daughter in the series is actually my niece, my sister's little girl.
- My parents were denied the opportunity to visit their sisters living in the West.
- Also, I know you want to see your dear little sister before she dies.
- I get to be maid of honor for my old best friend's sister's wedding.
- I hope they go away and tell their parents, brothers and sisters about this, so that they come as well.
Synonyms female sibling informal sis British rhyming slang skin and blister 2A female friend or associate, especially a female fellow member of a trade union or other organization. textile unions are showing solidarity with their brothers and sisters in the developing world Example sentencesExamples - This is why we are turning to our colleagues, friends, and sisters for assistance.
- However, it makes me sad to see our fellow brothers and sisters abort Xhosa and adopt other languages when they get into the limelight.
- Some people around me - family, friends, associates, brothers and sisters in Christ - have died, and I can see that others are heading that way.
- But today Hindus have all the resources they need to support our fellow brothers and sisters.
- I now know that my fellow brothers and sisters, the lawyers of New Zealand, will be in a position to practise in front of the highest court of our country.
- I would like to remind my fellow brothers and sisters that their primary objective should be service delivery and the eradication of poverty.
Synonyms comrade, friend, partner, associate, colleague - 2.1 A fellow woman seen in relation to feminist issues.
uncloseted lesbian sisters Example sentencesExamples - Eighteenth and nineteenth-century feminists are ‘our sisters, our contemporaries’.
- I don't think, with apologies to my feminist sisters, that Martha got different treatment because she's a woman.
- However, what is called ‘Gender Archaeology’ is actually feminist archaeology - sisters are doing it for themselves.
- You have to ask what the limits are of a feminist politics that places all women as sisters.
- One of the differences between me and my sisters in the women's movement is that I do not regard my husband's money as my own.
- Like most of my feminist sisters in Paris, I scorned monogamy.
- Feminists encourage women to be sisters, but will they also become mates?
- 2.2North American informal A black woman (chiefly used as a term of address by other black people)
‘Come on, sister, why not come clean and tell us?’ Example sentencesExamples - Catering was one of the most successful early business ventures for Blacks, and sisters were the first ones to try their hands at it.
- Even within my own corporation, a workplace Mecca for Black women, sisters have had drama.
- While Black women and their sisters of color have been the main targets of these racist-inspired attacks, white women have suffered as well.
- All my sisters who want a Black revolution don't care
- I know many black sisters who have been unemployed for quite some time.
- Look, I wanted to write a book about smart, sassy, sexy sisters with issues like everybody else has.
3A member of a religious order of women. the sisters announced that there would be a special rosary every morning as name Sister Elizabeth, the headmistress of the Convent High School Example sentencesExamples - Crucial to the prosecution was the willingness of other Benedictine sisters to testify against them.
- At a gathering of nuns in Washington in 1979, he ordered the sisters to dress in proper religious garb and to remember their true vocation as acquiescent helpers.
- The move would also have the result, so far scarcely noted, of undermining the teaching orders of priests and religious sisters.
- One of the greatest strengths of the Catholic Church is the quality and dedication of its religious sisters.
- She will be most sadly missed by her religious sisters.
- The church sisters wrapped him in a quilt made out of patches of John's clothing.
- Because she was a religious sister and a citizen of the United States her case, of course, got great publicity.
- Family members and Ursuline sisters sought to comfort her; she did not recognize them.
- Her hope was that after treatment she would be able to return to her religious sisters and to her work, where she had spent 36 happy years.
- It will mark the end of an era for the religious order of sisters, who 31 years ago set up the centre in the parlour of their convent.
- He was especially well known among the religious sisters, the nuns of that time.
- Jeanne acted exactly as a religious sister in the mid-nineteenth century was expected to act.
- Gould dwells mainly on occidental missionaries, sisters from the church, and other motivated people of Christian faith who served the cause of leprosy patients.
- An order of Zambian religious sisters now manages both the hospital and the training centre.
- I once stayed at a convent where the sisters placed a photo album in each room with pictures of the things they wanted people to donate.
- They compelled the sisters to leave their convent and forbade the townspeople to lease us property.
- Of course, in the Roman Catholic Church marriage is forbidden for the clergy and the religious sisters.
Synonyms nun, novice, abbess, prioress, Mother Superior, Reverend Mother bride of Christ, religious, conventual, contemplative Roman Catholic Church canoness literary vestal historical anchoress, ancress rare vowess 4British A senior female nurse, typically in charge of a ward. the ward sister needs to be consulted as name Sister nodded, glancing at the reports Example sentencesExamples - The doctors, sister and nurses and ambulance staff were wonderful to me.
- I had a boss who liked me but a ward sister who did not.
- At 17 she got a job as a health care assistant at Airedale Hospital, where advice from a ward sister encouraged her to start training as a nurse.
- With his wife, who had been his ward sister, he published a textbook on orthopaedic nursing.
- The public consultation called for a ‘modern matron figure’ in hospitals, and ward sisters or charge nurses will be given authority to resolve clinical issues.
- Since leaving the hospital the care has continued at home with some wonderful treatment by the district nurses and sisters.
- She quit her job as a ward sister in 1991 to bring up her children but found she missed nursing.
- The two ward sisters, nurses, cleaners and meals staff were hard-working, kind and cheerful - nothing was too much trouble for them.
- Dr Bolton had not been at the interview when I was appointed, but the ward sister and the houseman assured me that he was a nice person.
- We contacted a sister or charge nurse in each department.
- The ward sister ate happily from the trolley in front of me, knowing that I had had no food.
- As we walked back down the ward, I asked the ward sister if the mother had been in touch.
- On a busy night like this, the sister in charge keeps pressurising you to finish your paperwork, help a woman wash, and transfer her to the ward.
- Yesterday an old man collapsed in the toilet, and Amelia ran out to fetch the ward sister.
- On October 29 last year, supervisors and ward sisters complained that none of the staff members had been consulted about the plan to move the ward.
- The ward sister was in charge and no one would cross her!
- At the final patient's bed the ward sister drew back the curtains to reveal a patient sitting at the edge of the bed with his head tilted forward and pinching the tip of his nose.
- The Government has given more power to ward sisters and matrons to insist on higher cleaning standards.
- Each ward will have three senior sisters, sisters, staff nurses and healthcare assistants in the team on hand to help and advise patients.
- The ward sister with 30 years' experience is still in such a state of shock that she needs to take powerful tranquillisers.
5as modifier Denoting an organization or place that bears a relationship to another of common origin or allegiance or mutual association. Securicor and its sister company Securicor Services Example sentencesExamples - We were instructed to head south to clear the area and allow a sister ship to conduct an over-the-side torpedo shot.
- Its sister ship turned also and followed its compatriot out of the safety of their long-time hiding place.
- The two sister associations met to discuss common concerns within the hotel industry.
- The original Queen Elizabeth and the Queen Mary were sister ships of the Cunard Line and, like sisters, shared a great many experiences.
- One would have expected the two sister professions to make common cause.
- Mother and I travelled on the passenger vessel Olympic, a sister ship of the Titanic.
- She said there was a lot of interest in sister youth organisations in Europe.
- These two are sister newspapers and share the same resources.
- He had no explanation for what might have happened to the sister ship, which was fishing in the same area of sea on Tuesday night.
- Already the Zimbabwean and Mozambican sister organizations have been doing well and expanding.
- It is great to see our sister organization from across the Atlantic continue to grow and prosper.
- The Express Artemis, sister ship to the Samina, ran aground on Friday carrying 1,026 passengers.
- Star Clipper and her near-identical sister ship are fantastic square-rigged clippers.
- The princess is the chair of the sister organization in the United Kingdom.
- This ship and her sister exhibit distinct split personalities, depending on the cruising region.
- Its sister organizations throughout Texas will try to bring the state total to 500,000.
- The charity, which has sister organisations in America and Australia, has chosen the village to start its operation in this country.
- It has sister organisations in Scotland and Northern Ireland.
- The show had a six-month run at the National Portrait Gallery from last autumn and sister versions are running in New York and San Francisco.
- The company, along with sister companies Vidal and Esk Valley have won numerous local and international wine awards.
Origin Old English, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch zuster and German Schwester, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin soror. Rhymes assister, ballista, bistre (US bister), blister, enlister, glister, lister, mister, resistor, Sandinista, transistor, tryster, twister, vista Definition of sister in US English: sisternounˈsistərˈsɪstər 1A woman or girl in relation to other daughters and sons of her parents. Example sentencesExamples - She grew roses at her family home and they were a constant reminder of her happy years growing up with her brothers and sisters and her parents.
- The girl that plays my daughter in the series is actually my niece, my sister's little girl.
- Three educational institutions have adopted two brothers and a sister who lost their parents in a tragic fire accident.
- Sadly, it is our sons and daughters, brothers and sisters, who must pay the price when a deal goes bad.
- My parents were denied the opportunity to visit their sisters living in the West.
- I get to be maid of honor for my old best friend's sister's wedding.
- Elianne's parents, two sisters and brother will be going to see her tread the boards and there is plenty of time for you to see the play as it is on until March 15.
- Looking down, I was delighted to see my four-year old baby sister, Zoe.
- The brothers and four sisters lived with their parents in Car Bank Square.
- The bridesmaid was sister of the bride Amanda, and the best man was David Duffy.
- I hope they go away and tell their parents, brothers and sisters about this, so that they come as well.
- He and his younger twin sister had sneaked out of the palace many times, disguised as peasants.
- There was one room for my nine brothers and sisters and my parents.
- Hours before they were removed one of the children had pleaded: ‘Don't take me and my brothers and sisters away from our parents.’
- An extremely quiet and gentle girl she went to Dublin with her sister after their parents passed away.
- Also, I know you want to see your dear little sister before she dies.
- The operation was a success and Claudia was discharged in time to spend Christmas at home with her parents and three older sisters.
- I witnessed the complete joy and ecstasy on family members faces as their son's or daughters, brothers or sisters strode out proudly with the best in the world and took part in sport.
- He enjoys every moment at home with his parents, brothers and sisters and he also spent some time at his favourite pastime, fishing.
- 1.1 A sister-in-law.
2A close female friend or associate, especially a female fellow member of a labor union or other organization. Example sentencesExamples - But today Hindus have all the resources they need to support our fellow brothers and sisters.
- I would like to remind my fellow brothers and sisters that their primary objective should be service delivery and the eradication of poverty.
- Some people around me - family, friends, associates, brothers and sisters in Christ - have died, and I can see that others are heading that way.
- However, it makes me sad to see our fellow brothers and sisters abort Xhosa and adopt other languages when they get into the limelight.
- I now know that my fellow brothers and sisters, the lawyers of New Zealand, will be in a position to practise in front of the highest court of our country.
- This is why we are turning to our colleagues, friends, and sisters for assistance.
Synonyms comrade, friend, partner, associate, colleague - 2.1 A fellow woman seen in relation to feminist issues.
Example sentencesExamples - However, what is called ‘Gender Archaeology’ is actually feminist archaeology - sisters are doing it for themselves.
- Like most of my feminist sisters in Paris, I scorned monogamy.
- Feminists encourage women to be sisters, but will they also become mates?
- You have to ask what the limits are of a feminist politics that places all women as sisters.
- I don't think, with apologies to my feminist sisters, that Martha got different treatment because she's a woman.
- Eighteenth and nineteenth-century feminists are ‘our sisters, our contemporaries’.
- One of the differences between me and my sisters in the women's movement is that I do not regard my husband's money as my own.
- 2.2North American informal A black woman (chiefly used as a term of address by other black people).
Example sentencesExamples - Look, I wanted to write a book about smart, sassy, sexy sisters with issues like everybody else has.
- Catering was one of the most successful early business ventures for Blacks, and sisters were the first ones to try their hands at it.
- All my sisters who want a Black revolution don't care
- While Black women and their sisters of color have been the main targets of these racist-inspired attacks, white women have suffered as well.
- Even within my own corporation, a workplace Mecca for Black women, sisters have had drama.
- I know many black sisters who have been unemployed for quite some time.
3A member of a religious order or congregation of women. Example sentencesExamples - Gould dwells mainly on occidental missionaries, sisters from the church, and other motivated people of Christian faith who served the cause of leprosy patients.
- An order of Zambian religious sisters now manages both the hospital and the training centre.
- Her hope was that after treatment she would be able to return to her religious sisters and to her work, where she had spent 36 happy years.
- It will mark the end of an era for the religious order of sisters, who 31 years ago set up the centre in the parlour of their convent.
- Of course, in the Roman Catholic Church marriage is forbidden for the clergy and the religious sisters.
- Jeanne acted exactly as a religious sister in the mid-nineteenth century was expected to act.
- The move would also have the result, so far scarcely noted, of undermining the teaching orders of priests and religious sisters.
- She will be most sadly missed by her religious sisters.
- He was especially well known among the religious sisters, the nuns of that time.
- Crucial to the prosecution was the willingness of other Benedictine sisters to testify against them.
- Because she was a religious sister and a citizen of the United States her case, of course, got great publicity.
- Family members and Ursuline sisters sought to comfort her; she did not recognize them.
- They compelled the sisters to leave their convent and forbade the townspeople to lease us property.
- One of the greatest strengths of the Catholic Church is the quality and dedication of its religious sisters.
- I once stayed at a convent where the sisters placed a photo album in each room with pictures of the things they wanted people to donate.
- At a gathering of nuns in Washington in 1979, he ordered the sisters to dress in proper religious garb and to remember their true vocation as acquiescent helpers.
- The church sisters wrapped him in a quilt made out of patches of John's clothing.
Synonyms nun, novice, abbess, prioress, mother superior, reverend mother 4British A senior female nurse, typically in charge of a ward. Example sentencesExamples - The doctors, sister and nurses and ambulance staff were wonderful to me.
- Since leaving the hospital the care has continued at home with some wonderful treatment by the district nurses and sisters.
- Dr Bolton had not been at the interview when I was appointed, but the ward sister and the houseman assured me that he was a nice person.
- She quit her job as a ward sister in 1991 to bring up her children but found she missed nursing.
- The Government has given more power to ward sisters and matrons to insist on higher cleaning standards.
- On a busy night like this, the sister in charge keeps pressurising you to finish your paperwork, help a woman wash, and transfer her to the ward.
- The ward sister with 30 years' experience is still in such a state of shock that she needs to take powerful tranquillisers.
- On October 29 last year, supervisors and ward sisters complained that none of the staff members had been consulted about the plan to move the ward.
- Each ward will have three senior sisters, sisters, staff nurses and healthcare assistants in the team on hand to help and advise patients.
- The ward sister ate happily from the trolley in front of me, knowing that I had had no food.
- At 17 she got a job as a health care assistant at Airedale Hospital, where advice from a ward sister encouraged her to start training as a nurse.
- I had a boss who liked me but a ward sister who did not.
- The ward sister was in charge and no one would cross her!
- Yesterday an old man collapsed in the toilet, and Amelia ran out to fetch the ward sister.
- We contacted a sister or charge nurse in each department.
- With his wife, who had been his ward sister, he published a textbook on orthopaedic nursing.
- At the final patient's bed the ward sister drew back the curtains to reveal a patient sitting at the edge of the bed with his head tilted forward and pinching the tip of his nose.
- The two ward sisters, nurses, cleaners and meals staff were hard-working, kind and cheerful - nothing was too much trouble for them.
- The public consultation called for a ‘modern matron figure’ in hospitals, and ward sisters or charge nurses will be given authority to resolve clinical issues.
- As we walked back down the ward, I asked the ward sister if the mother had been in touch.
5as modifier Denoting an organization or place that bears a relationship to another of common origin or allegiance or mutual association. Eastern's sister airline, Continental Example sentencesExamples - The original Queen Elizabeth and the Queen Mary were sister ships of the Cunard Line and, like sisters, shared a great many experiences.
- It is great to see our sister organization from across the Atlantic continue to grow and prosper.
- This ship and her sister exhibit distinct split personalities, depending on the cruising region.
- Already the Zimbabwean and Mozambican sister organizations have been doing well and expanding.
- The company, along with sister companies Vidal and Esk Valley have won numerous local and international wine awards.
- One would have expected the two sister professions to make common cause.
- These two are sister newspapers and share the same resources.
- The charity, which has sister organisations in America and Australia, has chosen the village to start its operation in this country.
- The princess is the chair of the sister organization in the United Kingdom.
- He had no explanation for what might have happened to the sister ship, which was fishing in the same area of sea on Tuesday night.
- She said there was a lot of interest in sister youth organisations in Europe.
- The Express Artemis, sister ship to the Samina, ran aground on Friday carrying 1,026 passengers.
- Its sister ship turned also and followed its compatriot out of the safety of their long-time hiding place.
- The two sister associations met to discuss common concerns within the hotel industry.
- Star Clipper and her near-identical sister ship are fantastic square-rigged clippers.
- It has sister organisations in Scotland and Northern Ireland.
- Its sister organizations throughout Texas will try to bring the state total to 500,000.
- The show had a six-month run at the National Portrait Gallery from last autumn and sister versions are running in New York and San Francisco.
- Mother and I travelled on the passenger vessel Olympic, a sister ship of the Titanic.
- We were instructed to head south to clear the area and allow a sister ship to conduct an over-the-side torpedo shot.
Origin Old English, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch zuster and German Schwester, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin soror. |