Usually means: Female sibling from same parents.
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We found 42 dictionaries that define the word sister:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. sister: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. Sister, sister: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sister: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. sister: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Sister, sister: Vocabulary.com
  6. Sister, sister: Wordnik
  7. sister: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Sister, sister: Wiktionary
  9. sister: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. sister: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. sister: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. sister: Dictionary.com
  13. sister: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. sister: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. Sister: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. sister: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. sister: Rhymezone
  19. sister: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. sister: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. sister: Free Dictionary
  22. sister: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. sister: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. sister: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sister: Lexicon of Linguistics

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. Sister: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sister: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Sister: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. SISTER: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. sister: Idioms

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. sister: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  3. sister, the sister: Urban Dictionary
  4. Sister: Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: Hardboiled Slang

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See sistering as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A daughter of the same parents as another person; a female sibling.
noun:  A female member of a religious order; especially one devoted to more active service; (informal) a nun.
noun:  Any butterfly in the genus Adelpha, so named for the resemblance of the dark-colored wings to the black habit traditionally worn by nuns.
noun:  (British) A senior or supervisory nurse, often in a hospital.
noun:  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.
noun:  (African-American Vernacular, slang, sometimes capitalized) A black woman.
noun:  (informal) A form of address to a woman.
noun:  A female fellow member of a religious community, church, trades union etc.
noun:  (attributively) An entity that has a special or affectionate, non-hierarchical relationship with another.
noun:  (computing theory) A node in a data structure that shares its parent with another node.
noun:  (usually attributively) Something in the same class.
verb:  (transitive, construction) To strengthen (a supporting beam) by fastening a second beam alongside it.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To be sister to; to resemble closely.
noun:  Title of respect for an adult female member of a religious order.
noun:  Title of respect for an adult female member of a fraternal/sororal organization, or comrade in a movement, or even a stranger using fictive kin.
noun:  A title used to personify or respectfully refer to concepts or animals.

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