sister
NounOpen English WordNet
Noun (3)sisters
- a female person who has the same parents as another person“my sister married a musician”Synonyms: sisType of female siblingKinds half sister, little sister, big sister
- (Roman Catholic Church) a title given to a nun (and used as a form of address)“the Sisters taught her to love God”Type of nunMember of sisterhood
- a female person who is a fellow member of a sorority or labor union or other group“none of her sisters would betray her”Type of member, womanKinds BeguineMember of sorority
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Translations
Noun woman or girl having the same parents
- Spanish
- hermana
- French
- sœur
- German
- Schwester
- Italian
- sorella
- Portuguese
- irmã
- Turkish
- kız kardeş
- Russian
- сестра́ sestrá
- Arabic
- أُخْت ʔuḵt
- Chinese
- 姐姐 jiějie
- Japanese
- 姉妹 shimai
36 more languages
- Dutch
- zus
- Polish
- siostra
- Swedish
- syster
- Greek
- αδελφή adelfí
- Korean
- 자매 jamae
- Indonesian
- saudara perempuan
- Vietnamese
- em gái
- Hungarian
- nővér
- Portuguese (PT)
- irmã
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 姐姐 jiějie
- Albanian
- motër
- Breton
- c'hoar
- Catalan
- germana
- Corsican
- surella
- Czech
- sestra
- Danish
- søster
- Esperanto
- fratino
- Estonian
- õde
- Finnish
- sisko
- Georgian
- და da
- Hebrew
- אָחוֹת akhót
- Icelandic
- systir
- Kurdish
- xwişk
- Latvian
- māsa
- Lithuanian
- sesuo
- Malagasy
- anabavy
- Norwegian
- søster
- Romanian
- soră
- Scottish Gaelic
- piuthar
- Serbo-Croatian
- sestra
- Slovak
- sestra
- Slovenian
- sestra
- Swahili
- dada
- Walloon
- sour
- Welsh
- chwaer
- Yiddish
- שוועסטער shvester
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: OE. sister, fr. Icel. systir; also suster, from AS. sweostor, sweoster, swuster, akin to OFries. sweester, suster, LG. süster, suster, D. zuster, OS. & OHG. swestar, G. schwester, Icel. systir, Sw. syster, Dan. söster, Goth. swistar, Lith. ses…, Russ. sestra, Pol. siostra, L. soror, Skr. svasr. √298. Cf. Cousin.
1. A female who has the same parents with another person, or who has one of them only. In the latter case, she is more definitely called a half sister. The correlative of brother.
I am the sister of one Claudio.— William Shakespeare
2. A woman who is closely allied to, or associated with, another person, as in the sister faith, society, order, or community. James ii. 15.
3. One of the same kind, or of the same condition; — generally used adjectively; as, sister fruits. Alexander Pope
Sister Block Nautical, a tackle block having two sheaves, one above the other. — Sister hooks, a pair of hooks fitted together, the shank of one forming a mousing for the other; — called also match hook. — Sister of charity, Sister of mercy. Roman Catholic Church See under Charity, and Mercy.
To be sister to; to resemble closely. obsolete William Shakespeare
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54