Das englische Wort für Schwester ist
sister

Englische Definition

Übersetzungen für Schwester und ihre Definitionen

sister
1. [1] Weibliches Geschwisterkind
2. [2] Weibliches Mitglied einer religiösen Gemeinschaft.
3. [3] {{BE, }}, Australien: Weibliche Assistentin eines Arztes (insbesondere im Krankenhaus)
4. [4] {{AE}} (umgangssprachlich): Bezeichnung einer Frau oder eines Mädchens
[1] I've got two sisters and one brother.
Ich habe zwei Schwestern und einen Bruder.

Sister
1. subst. Title of respect for an adult female member of a religious order.
Please welcome Sister Smith as she moves from her former congregation to her new congregation.   Sister Jane Miller   ux, en, Please welcome Sister Smith as she moves from her former
Could you say a prayer for me, Sister?
2. subst. Title of respect for am adult female member of a fraternal/sororal organization, or comrade in a movement, or even a stranger using fictive kin.
3. subst. A title used to personify or respectfully refer to concepts or animals.
Native American leader Chief Seattle urged ecological responsibility, referring to Brother Eagle and Sister Sky in his purported 1854 speech.   I honor you, Sister Bear, and I will make us
4. subst. A daughter of the same parents as another person; a female sibling.
My sister is always driving me crazy.
5. subst. A female member of a religious order; especially one devoted to more active service; (informally) a nun.
Michelle left behind her bank job and became a sister at the local convent.
6. subst. Any butterfly in the genus , so named for the resemblance of the dark-colored wings to the black habit traditionally worn by nuns.
7. subst. (British) A senior or supervisory nurse, often in a hospital.
8. subst. Any woman or girl with whom a bond is felt through common membership of a race, profession, religion or organization, such as feminism.
Connie was very close to her friend Judy and considered her to be her sister.
9. subst. (slang) A black woman.
10. subst. (informal) (A form of address to a woman.)
11. subst. A woman, in certain labour or socialist circles; also as a form of address.
12. subst. (attributively) An entity that has a special or affectionate, non-hierarchical relationship with another.
sister publication, sister city, sister projects
13. subst. (comptheory) A node in a data structure that shares its parent with another node.
14. subst. (usually attributively) Something in the same class.
sister ships, sister facility
15. v. (transitive, construction) To strengthen (a supporting beam) by fastening a second beam alongside it.
I’m trying to correct my sagging floor by sistering the joists.
16. v. (obsolete, transitive) To be sister to; to resemble closely.

nurse
1. Substantiv:
2. [1] Krankenschwester, Krankenpfleger

nurse
1. subst. (archaic) A wet-nurse.
2. subst. A person (usually a woman) who takes care of other people’s young.
They hired a nurse to care for their young boy
3. subst. A person trained to provide care for the sick.
The nurse made her rounds through the hospital ward
4. subst. One who, or that which, brings up, rears, causes to grow, trains, fosters, or the like.
5. subst. (horticulture) A shrub or tree that protects a young plant.
6. subst. (nautical) A lieutenant or first officer who takes command when the captain is unfit for his place.
7. subst. A larva of certain trematodes, which produces cercariae by asexual reproduction.
8. subst. A nurse shark.
9. v. to breastfeed
She believes that nursing her baby will make him strong and healthy.
10. v. to care for the sick
She nursed him back to health.
11. v. to treat kindly and with extra care
She nursed the rosebush and that season it bloomed.
12. v. to manage with care and economy
Synonyms: husband
13. v. to drink slowly
14. v. to foster, to nourish
15. v. to hold closely to one's chest
Would you like to nurse the puppy?
16. v. to strike (billiard balls) gently, so as to keep them in good position during a series of shots

nun	©
1. Substantiv:
2. [1] Klosterfrau, Klosterschwester, Nonne
3. [2] selten, veraltet: Blaumeise
[1] Catholic nuns aren't allowed to marry.
Katholische Nonnen dürfen nicht heiraten.

nun	©
1. subst. A member of a Christian religious community of women who live by certain vows and usually wear a habit, (Roman Catholicism, specifically) those living together in a cloister.
2. subst. (by extension) A member of a similar female community in other confessions.
3. subst. (archaic, British slang) A prostitute.(R:Farmer, volume=5, page=76)
4. subst. A kind of pigeon with the feathers on its head like the hood of a nun.
5. subst. The fourteenth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).

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