Sister

Noun

 * 1) a daughter of the same parents as another person; a female sibling.
 * 2) a female member of a religious community; a nun.
 * 3)  a senior or supervisory nurse, often in a hospital.
 * 4) any woman or girl with whom a bond is felt through common membership of a race, profession, religion or organization, such as feminism.
 * 5)  a black woman
 * 6)  a form of address to a woman
 * 7) a woman, in certain labour or socialist circles; also as a form of address.
 * 8)  Of or relating to an entity that has a special or affectionate relationship with another

Verb

 * 1)  To strengthen (a supporting beam) by fastening a second beam alongside it.

Adjectives for Sister
caring, sweet, intelligent, funny, cute, moody, charming, artistic, temperamental, passionate, compassionate, loving, giving, gentle, gracious, kind; fiendish; cruel; illustrious; amorous; affectionate; poor; unworthy; unemotional; recreant; admirable; ecclesiastical; true; foster; lost; ungrateful; heroic; neglected; harrowed; malleable; rebellious; elder; serious; devoted; erring; unseemly; aristocratic; slow-witted; indubitable; blood; model; puissant.

Synonyms for Sister

 * sis
 * nun, sistren
 * charge nurse
 * darling, dear, lady, love, miss,  pet

Antonyms for Sister

 * brother

Hypernyms for Sister

 * sibling

Derived terms

 * half-sister
 * sister city
 * sisterhood


 * sister-in-law
 * sisterly
 * sister ship


 * stepsister
 * weak sister

Thesaurus
sororal, sistren, nun, brethren, brother, friar, frater, father, abbess, affiliate, ally, alter ego, analogon, analogue, associate, aunt, auntie, belonger, blood brother, brethren, brother, bub, bubba, bud, buddy, canoness, card-carrier, card-carrying member, cardholder, catechumen, charge nurse, charter member, church member, churchman, churchwoman, clergywoman, close copy, close match, clubber, clubman, clubwoman, cognate, committeeman, communicant, companion, complement, comrade, congenator, congener, conventioneer, conventioner, conventionist, conventual, coordinate, correlate, correlative, correspondent, counterpart, country cousin, cousin, cousin once removed, cousin twice removed, daughter, district nurse, dues-paying member, enlistee, enrollee, equivalent, father, fellow, first cousin, foster brother, frater, fraternity man, graduate nurse, grandnephew, grandniece, granduncle, great-aunt, great-uncle, guildsman, half brother, honorary member, image, initiate, insider, joiner, kid brother, kindred spirit, lady superior, laic, lay brother, lay sister, layman, laywoman, licensed practical nurse, life member, like, likeness, mate, member, mother, mother superior, near duplicate, nephew, niece, novice, nun, nuncle, nunks, nunky, nurse, nursing sister, obverse, one of us, parallel, parishioner, pendant, picture, pledge, postulant, practical nurse, prioress, private-duty nurse, probationer, probationist, probe, public health nurse, reciprocal, registered nurse, religieuse, school nurse, scrub nurse, second cousin, second self, secular, secular canoness, similitude, simulacrum, sis, sissy, sister-german, sistern, socius, son, sorority girl, sorority woman, soul mate, stepbrother, stepsister, student nurse, such, suchlike, superioress, surgical nurse, tally, the like of, the likes of, the reverend mother, trained nurse, twin, unc, uncle, uncs, uterine brother, visiting nurse

Etymology
suster, sister:, partly from systir and partly from  sweoster:, both from, from.

Noun

 * Afrikaans: suster
 * Akkadian:
 * Albanian:
 * Amharic: ,
 * Ancient Greek:
 * Arabic:
 * Aramaic:
 * Syriac: ܚܬܐ (ħāṯā’)
 * Archi:
 * Armenian:
 * Old Armenian:
 * Aromanian:
 * Azeri:
 * Belarusian:
 * Bosnian:
 * Breton: c'hoar
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese: အစ်မ, ညီမ
 * Catalan: germana,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 姐姐 jiějie, 妹妹 (mèimei) , 姐妹 (jiěmèi) (female siblings), 嬃, 媭 (xū)
 * Min Nan:,  ,
 * Teochew: zê2mei2
 * Chinook Jargon: ,
 * Coptic:
 * Cornish:
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Egyptian:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: õde, sõsar
 * Ewe: nɔvinyɔnu (sister), daa (older sister), tsɛ (younger sister)
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Greenlandic: nuka, angaju, aleqa or naja
 * Hebrew: אחות (akhót)
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: saudara perempuan, kakak perempuan   / adik perempuan
 * Interlingua: soror
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ;,  ;
 * Karachay-Balkar:
 * Kazakh:
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Sorani: خوشک
 * Sorani: خوشک


 * Kyrgyz: эже (eje) ; карындаш (qaryndaş)
 * Latgalian:
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: māsa
 * Lithuanian: sesuo
 * Lojban: mensi
 * Lower Sorbian:
 * Luxembourgish: Schwëster
 * Macedonian:
 * Malay:
 * Malayalam: സഹോദരി,  ചേച്ചി
 * Maltese:
 * Marathi: (bahin)
 * Nahuatl: cihuācnīuhtli, siuakniutli
 * Navajo: ,
 * Norwegian: søster, storesøster, lillesøster
 * Occitan: sòrre
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Glagolitic:
 * Old Prussian: sestrā
 * Ossetian:
 * Digor:
 * Iron:
 * Pashto:
 * Persian:
 * Phoenician:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romani: pheny
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: piuthar
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Roman:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tamil: older (older), தங்கை (younger), சகோதரி
 * Taos: p’àyu’úna (younger), tùtúna (older)
 * Telugu: సోదరి (sOdari); అక్క (akka), అక్కయ్య (akkayya) ; చెల్లి (celli), చెల్లెలు (cellelu)
 * Thai: ,
 * Turkish: abla, kız kardeş, bacı
 * Ugaritic:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Upper Sorbian:
 * Urdu:
 * Vietnamese: or chị gái, em gái ,
 * Volapük: sör, gem,  jigem, jiblod
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian:


 * Afrikaans: suster
 * Amharic: እህት (ehet)
 * Armenian: քույր (k‘uyr)
 * Bosnian:
 * Breton: c'hoar, seurez
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Croatian:
 * Danish: ,
 * Dutch:, , ,
 * Esperanto: ,
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:, ,
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: אָחוֹת (akhót)
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: siúr
 * Italian: ,


 * Japanese: 修道女 (しゅうどうじょ, shūdōjo); シスター (shisutā)
 * Korean: 수녀 (sunyeo)
 * Latvian: māsa
 * Maltese:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: сестра
 * Roman: sestra
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:, sor
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: సహోదరి (sahOdari)
 * Turkish:
 * Volapük: kleudan,  jikleudan,  rodan,  jirodan


 * Afrikaans: suster
 * Armenian: բուժքույր (bužk‘uyr)
 * Breton: klañvdiourez
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: infermera
 * Czech:
 * Danish: afdelingssygeplejerske
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:


 * Hebrew: אָחוֹת (akhót)
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Interlingua: infirmera
 * Latvian: māsa, māsiņa , medmāsa
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Slovak: sestra, sestrička (lit. little sister)
 * Slovene: (medicinska) sestra
 * Swedish:, ,
 * Turkish:


 * Afrikaans: suster
 * Armenian: քույր (k‘uyr)
 * Catalan:
 * Danish:
 * Hebrew: אָחוֹת (akhót)


 * Kurdish:
 * Lojban: mensi
 * Russian:
 * Swedish:


 * Bulgarian: чернокожа жена (černokoža žena)
 * Catalan: germana


 * Hebrew: אָחוֹת (akhót)


 * Kurdish:
 * Sorani: خوشکه


 * Polish: (adjective) siostrzany

Anagrams

 * resist, resits, risest

Noun

 * 1) sister