sisters

Meaning of sisters

plural noun
  1. a woman or girl in relation to other daughters and sons of her parents.
    I had nine brothers and sisters
  2. a female friend or associate, especially a female fellow member of a trade union or other organization.
    textile unions are showing solidarity with their brothers and sisters in the developing world
  3. a member of a religious order of women.
    the sisters announced that there would be a special rosary every morning
    Sister Elizabeth, the headmistress of the Convent High School
  4. a senior female nurse, typically in charge of a ward.
    the ward sister needs to be consulted
    Sister nodded, glancing at the reports
  5. denoting an organization or place that bears a relationship to another of common origin or allegiance or mutual association.
    Securicor and its sister company Securicor Services
    a sister ship

Old English, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch zuster and German Schwester, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin soror .

Information about sisters

  • It is a name.
  • The singular form of sisters is: sister.
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Hyphenation of sisters

sis-ters

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
  • sisters is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

sisters synonyms

Meaning a person's sister (often used as a form of address):

sis

Meaning (among men) a colleague or a fellow member of an organization:

comrade

Meaning a person with whom one has a bond of mutual affection, typically one exclusive of sexual or family relations:

friend

Meaning either of a pair of people engaged together in the same activity:

partner

Meaning a partner or companion in business or at work:

associate

Meaning a person with whom one works in a profession or business:

colleague

Meaning a member of a religious community of women, typically one living under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience:

nun

Meaning a person new to and inexperienced in a job or situation:

novice

Meaning a woman who is the head of an abbey of nuns:

abbess

Meaning a woman who is head of a house of certain orders of nuns:

prioress

Meaning a person bound by monastic vows:

religious

Meaning a person who lives in or is a member of a convent:

conventual

Meaning a person whose life is devoted primarily to prayer, especially in a monastery or convent:

contemplative

Meaning (in the Roman Catholic Church) a member of certain religious orders of women living communally according to an ecclesiastical rule in the same way as nuns:

canoness

Meaning a Vestal Virgin:

vestal

Meaning a female anchorite:

anchoress

Meaning a woman who took religious vows or a vow of chastity:

vowess

Anagrams of sisters

resists

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