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SISTER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A female person who is a fellow member of a sorority or labor union or other group
Example:
none of her sisters would betray her
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("sister" is a kind of...):
fellow member; member (one of the persons who compose a social group (especially individuals who have joined and participate in a group organization))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sister"):
Beguine ((Roman Catholic Church) a member of a lay sisterhood (one of several founded in the Netherlands in the 12th and 13th centuries); though not taking religious vows the sisters followed an austere life)
Holonyms ("sister" is a member of...):
sorority (a social club for female undergraduates)
Sense 2
Meaning:
(Roman Catholic Church) a title given to a nun (and used as a form of address)
Example:
the Sisters taught her to love God
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("Sister" is a kind of...):
nun (a woman religious)
Domain category:
Church of Rome; Roman Catholic; Roman Catholic Church; Roman Church; Western Church (the Christian Church based in the Vatican and presided over by a pope and an episcopal hierarchy)
Holonyms ("Sister" is a member of...):
sisterhood (a religious society of women who live together as sisters (especially an order of nuns))
Derivation:
sisterhood (a religious society of women who live together as sisters (especially an order of nuns))
Sense 3
Meaning:
A female person who has the same parents as another person
Example:
my sister married a musician
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("sister" is a kind of...):
female sibling (a person's sister)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sister"):
big sister (an older sister)
little sister (a younger sister)
half-sister; half sister; stepsister (a sister who has only one parent in common with you)
Antonym:
brother (a male with the same parents as someone else)
Derivation:
sisterhood (the kinship relation between a female offspring and the siblings)
sisterly (like or characteristic of or befitting a sister)
Context examples:
There is, of course, the other woman, the drink, the push, the blow, the bruise, the sympathetic sister or landlady.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A person’s brother or sister who has one parent in common.
(Half-sibling, NCI Dictionary)
A son of your brother or sister.
(Nephew, NCI Thesaurus)
A daughter of your brother or sister.
(Niece, NCI Thesaurus)
An individual's total number of brothers and sisters.
(Number of Siblings, NCI Thesaurus)
A person's brother or sister who has one parent in common.
(Half Sibling, NCI Dictionary)
The parents, brothers, sisters, or children of an individual.
(FDR, NCI Dictionary)
“The others are there,” she thought, “I may as well be there too,” and ran to them; but as soon as she had touched her sister, she remained sticking fast to her.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
They then underwent a stem cell transplant, receiving cells donated by a healthy brother or sister.
(Stem cell transplant reverses sickle cell disease in adults, NIH)
This is often a sister or brother, but could be an unrelated donor.
(Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation, NCI Dictionary)
