sister: significato e definizioni
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A fellow African-American woman or girl.
A female having the same parents as another or one parent in common with another.
A girl or woman who shares a common ancestry, allegiance, character, or purpose with another or others, specifically:
A woman fellow member, as of a sorority.
A close woman friend or companion.
A woman who advocates, fosters, or takes part in the feminist movement.
Informal Used as a form of address for a woman or girl.
Ecclesiastical A member of a religious order of women; a nun.
Ecclesiastical Used as a form of address for such a woman, alone or followed by the woman's name.
Chiefly British A nurse, especially the head nurse in a ward.
One identified as female and closely related to another: "the sisters Death and Night” ( Walt Whitman).
Related by or as if by sisterhood; closely related: sister ships; sister cities.
Genetics Of or being one of an identical pair: sister chromatids.