Sister
A female who has the same parents with another person, or who has one of them only. In the latter case, she is more definitely called a half sister. The correlative of brother.
A woman who is closely allied to, or assocciated with, another person, as in the sdame faith, society, order, or community.
One of the same kind, or of the same condition; -- generally used adjectively; as, sister fruits.
To be sister to; to resemble closely.
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Sister Quotations
The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
Oscar Wilde
My sister wanted to be an actress, but she never made it. She does live in a trailer. She got halfway. She's an actress, she just never gets called to the set.
Mitch Hedberg
She is the mother I never had, she is the sister everybody would want. She is the friend that everybody deserves. I don't know a better person.
Oprah Winfrey
A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.
Chanakya
Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband.
H. L. Mencken
It is natural not to care about a sister certainly not when she is four years older and grinds her teeth at night.
Gertrude Stein
For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.
Christina Rossetti
Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.
Margaret Mead
Ah, bless you, Sister, may all your sons be bishops.
Brendan Behan
Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness.
Sophocles
Sister Translations
sister in Afrikaans is suster
sister in Dutch is zuster, zus
sister in French is soeur
sister in German is Schwester
sister in Italian is sorella
sister in Latin is sanctimonialis
sister in Spanish is hermana
sister in Swedish is syster
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