Meaning of sister | Babel Free

Definitions

1. sister; female equivalent of hermano (“brother”)
2. Title of respect for an adult female member of a religious order.
3. A daughter of the same parents as another person; a female sibling.
4. third-person singular present indicative
5. Title of respect for an adult female member of a fraternal/sororal organization, or comrade in a movement, or even a stranger using fictive kin.
6. A female member of a religious order; especially one devoted to more active service; (informal) a nun.
7. Architecture To affix a beam or other structural member to (another) as a supplementary support.
   Architecture
8. second-person singular imperative
9. A title used to personify or respectfully refer to concepts or animals.
10. Any butterfly in the genus Adelpha, so named for the resemblance of the dark-colored wings to the black habit traditionally worn by nuns.
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12. A senior or supervisory nurse, often in a hospital.
    British
13. hermana;___ -in-law → cuñada.
14. Any woman or girl with whom a bond is felt through the same biological sex, gender or common membership in a community, race, profession, religion, organization, or ism.
15. A female having the same parents as another or one parent in common with another.
16. A black woman.
    capitalized, slang, sometimes
17. A girl or woman who shares a common ancestry, allegiance, character, or purpose with another or others, specifically:a. A kinswoman.
18. A form of address to a woman.
    informal
19. Informal Used as a form of address for a woman or girl.
    Informal
20. A female fellow member of a religious community, church, trades union etc.
21. Abbr. Sr. Ecclesiastical a. A member of a religious order of women; a nun.
22. An entity that has a special or affectionate, non-hierarchical relationship with another.
    attributive
23. Chiefly British A nurse, especially the head nurse in a ward.
    Chiefly British
24. A node in a data structure that shares its parent with another node.
25. One identified as female and closely related to another: "the sisters Death and Night" (Walt Whitman).
26. Something in the same class.
    attributive, usually
27. Architecture A beam or other structural member affixed to another as a supplementary support.
    Architecture
28. One of two tornados that form in close proximity at the same time or in quick succession.

Equivalents

Examples

“My sister is always driving me crazy.”

“Michelle left behind her bank job and became a sister at the local convent.”

“Connie was very close to her friend Judy and considered her to be her sister.”

“Sisters are doing it for themselves / Standing on their own two feet”

“A fly sister rolled in with a suitcase full of hip-hop novels called The Glamorous Life, and an African brother with long dreads wanted to sell them some incense and some fake Jacob watches.”

“The short “naps” of the average Sister do not sway in the wind as that of a blonde.”

“And now, social media has made it worse. From Facebook to Twitter, I get all kinds of invitations. Recently a sister inboxed me on Facebook and told me that she knew for a fact that I wanted her and she wanted me.”

“What’s up, sister?”

“"Listen, sister. I've got a job for you."”

“Thank you, sister. I would like to thank the sister who just spoke.”

“sister publication”

“sister city”

“sister projects”

“sister ships”

“sister facility”

“Within the ABCZ clade, Arecanae are sister of a group that includes all of the other taxa, and the latter fall into two major clades.”

“Karimi (1999) and Cheng et al. (1997), among others, on the other hand, assume that specific objects are base-generated at SpecVP, whereas nonspecific objects are sister of V.”

“The bee-eaters are sister to a clade that includes the rollers, ground-rollers, todies, motmots, and kingfishers (Cracraft 2013).”

“At the convent, Sister Grace supervises the kitchen.”

“Please welcome Sister Smith as she moves from her former congregation to her new congregation.”

“Could you say a prayer for me, Sister?”

“Sister Huerta was to have been our initial speaker this morning. However, we received word later this morning that Sister Huerta would be unable to attend our convention.”

“Native American leader Chief Seattle urged ecological responsibility, referring to Brother Eagle and Sister Sky in his purported 1854 speech.”

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