sister

Definitions

• A daughter of the same parents as another person; a female sibling.
• A female member of a religious order; especially one devoted to more active service; (informally) a nun.
• Any butterfly in the genus , so named for the resemblance of the dark-colored wings to the black habit traditionally worn by nuns.
• (British) A senior or supervisory nurse, often in a hospital.
• Any woman or girl with whom a bond is felt through common membership of a race, profession, religion or organization, such as feminism.
• (slang) A black woman.
• (informal) A form of address to a woman.
• A woman, in certain labour or socialist circles; also as a form of address.
• (attributively) An entity that has a special or affectionate, non-hierarchical relationship with another.
• (comptheory) A node in a data structure that shares its parent with another node.
• (usually) Something in the same class.