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, orism.
Connie was very close to her friend Judy and considered her to be hersister.
1985, “Sisters Are Doin’ It for Themselves”, inWho’s Zoomin' Who?, performed byEurythmics andAretha Franklin:
Sisters are doing it for themselves / Standing on their own two feet
A flysister rolled in with a suitcase full of hip-hop novels calledThe Glamorous Life, and an African brother with long dreads wanted to sell them some incense and some fake Jacob watches.
2009, Rajen Persaud,Why Black Men Love White Women, Simon and Schuster,→ISBN, page171:
The short “naps” of the averageSister do not sway in the wind as that of a blonde.
2014, J. L. King,Full Circle: Loving. Living. Life. After The Down Low:
And now, social media has made it worse. From Facebook to Twitter, I get all kinds of invitations. Recently asister inboxed me on Facebook and told me that she knew for a fact that I wanted her and she wanted me.
(usually attributively) Something in the same class.
sister ships
sister facility
2000, Dennis W. Stevenson, Jerrold I. Davis, John V. Freudenstein, Christopher R. Hardy, Mark P. Simmons, Chelsea D. Specht, “A phylogenetic analysis of the monocotyledons based on morphological and molecular character sets, with comments on the placement ofAcorus and Hydatellaceae”, inKaren L[ouise] Wilson, David A. Morrison, editors,Monocots: Systematics and Evolution, Collingwood, Vic.:CSIRO Publishing,→ISBN, page21, column 1:
Within the ABCZ clade, Arecanae aresister 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 aresister of V.
InRoman Catholicism, a distinction is often drawn (especially by members of femalereligious orders) between nuns and sisters, the former being cloistered and devoted primarily to prayer, the latter being more active, doing work such as operating hospitals, caring for the poor, or teaching.
The pluralsistren is no longer commonly used for biological sisters in contemporary English (although it was in the past) but may be found in some religious, feminist, or poetic usage.
Deep clerks she dumbs; and with her needle composes Nature's own shape, of bud, bird, branch, or berry, That even her artsisters the natural roses; Her inkle, silk, twin with the rubied cherry
