| Sister | |
| 1. s. 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. s. 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. s. 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. s. A daughter of the same parents as another person; a female sibling. | |
| My sister is always driving me crazy. | |
| 5. s. 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. s. Any butterfly in the genus , so named for the resemblance of the dark-colored wings to the black habit traditionally worn by nuns. | |
| 7. s. (British) A senior or supervisory nurse, often in a hospital. | |
| 8. s. 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. s. (slang) A black woman. | |
| 10. s. (informal) (A form of address to a woman.) | |
| 11. s. A woman, in certain labour or socialist circles; also as a form of address. | |
| 12. s. (attributively) An entity that has a special or affectionate, non-hierarchical relationship with another. | |
| sister publication, sister city, sister projects | |
| 13. s. (comptheory) A node in a data structure that shares its parent with another node. | |
| 14. s. (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. | |
