sister

Etymology
From, , from , , ; from , from.

Cognate with 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬, , 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

In standard English, the form with i is due to contamination with 🇨🇬.

The plural sistren is from, a variant plural of , ; compare.

Noun

 * 1) A daughter of the same parents as another person; a female sibling.
 * 2) A female member of a religious order; especially one devoted to more active service;  a nun.
 * 3) Any butterfly in the genus, so named for the resemblance of the dark-colored wings to the black habit traditionally worn by nuns.
 * 4)  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.
 * 6)  A black woman.
 * 7) A woman, in certain religious, labour or socialist circles; also as a form of address.
 * 8)  An entity that has a special or affectionate, non-hierarchical relationship with another.
 * 9)  A node in a data structure that shares its parent with another node.
 * 10)  Something in the same class.
 * 1)  A senior or supervisory nurse, often in a hospital.
 * 2) 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.
 * 3)  A black woman.
 * 4) A woman, in certain religious, labour or socialist circles; also as a form of address.
 * 5)  An entity that has a special or affectionate, non-hierarchical relationship with another.
 * 6)  A node in a data structure that shares its parent with another node.
 * 7)  Something in the same class.
 * 1) A woman, in certain religious, labour or socialist circles; also as a form of address.
 * 2)  An entity that has a special or affectionate, non-hierarchical relationship with another.
 * 3)  A node in a data structure that shares its parent with another node.
 * 4)  Something in the same class.
 * 1) A woman, in certain religious, labour or socialist circles; also as a form of address.
 * 2)  An entity that has a special or affectionate, non-hierarchical relationship with another.
 * 3)  A node in a data structure that shares its parent with another node.
 * 4)  Something in the same class.
 * 1)  An entity that has a special or affectionate, non-hierarchical relationship with another.
 * 2)  A node in a data structure that shares its parent with another node.
 * 3)  Something in the same class.
 * 1)  A node in a data structure that shares its parent with another node.
 * 2)  Something in the same class.
 * 1)  A node in a data structure that shares its parent with another node.
 * 2)  Something in the same class.

Usage notes

 * In Roman Catholicism, a distinction is often drawn (especially by members of female religious 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 plural 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.

Verb

 * 1)  To strengthen (a supporting beam) by fastening a second beam alongside it.
 * 2)  To be sister to; to resemble closely.
 * 1)  To be sister to; to resemble closely.

Translations

 * German: aufdoppeln,

Etymology
From, , forms of influenced by 🇨🇬, from , , , from , from.