Definition of "sister"

sister

/ˈsɪs.tə(ɹ)/

noun
plural sisters or (archaic in most senses) sistren
1. A daughter of the same parents as another person; a female sibling.
2. (informal) a nun.
3. Any butterfly in the genus Adelpha, so named for the resemblance of the dark-colored wings to the black habit traditionally worn by nuns.
4. (Britain) A senior or supervisory nurse, often in a hospital.
5. 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.
  Quotations
  Sisters are doing it for themselves / Standing on their own two feet
  1985, “Sisters Are Doin’ It for Themselves”, in Who’s Zoomin' Who?, performed by Eurythmics and Aretha Franklin
6. (African-American Vernacular, slang, sometimes capitalized) A black woman.
  Quotations
  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.
  2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World/Ballantine Books, page 169
  The short “naps” of the average Sister do not sway in the wind as that of a blonde.
  2009, Rajen Persaud, Why Black Men Love White Women, Simon and Schuster, page 171
  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.
  2014, J. L. King, Full Circle: Loving. Living. Life. After The Down Low
7. (informal) A form of address to a woman.
  Quotations
  "Listen, sister. I've got a job for you."
  1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 13
8. A woman, in certain religious, labour or socialist circles; also as a form of address.
9. (attributively) An entity that has a special or affectionate, non-hierarchical relationship with another.
10. (computing theory) A node in a data structure that shares its parent with another node.
11. (usually attributively) Something in the same class.
verb
third-person singular simple present sisters, present participle sistering, simple past and past participle sistered
1. (transitive, construction) To strengthen (a supporting beam) by fastening a second beam alongside it.
2. (obsolete, transitive) To be sister to; to resemble closely.
  Quotations
  Deep clerks she dumbs; and with her needle composesNature's own shape, of bud, bird, branch, or berry,That even her art sisters the natural roses;Her inkle, silk, twin with the rubied cherry
  c. 1607–1608, William Shakeſpeare, The Late, And much admired Play, Called Pericles, Prince of Tyre. […], London: Imprinted at London for Henry Goſſon, […], published 1609, [Act V, scene 1]

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