sister:
(short form: ‘sis’; male: ‘brother‘; plural: ‘sisters‘; for the right pronunciation of this word, please click here)
two sisters taking a walk
(in a family) a female (girl) who is born to one’s parents, with the same father and mother; a female sibling;
(shot form: ‘Sis.’) a member of a female (woman) religious group, especially in Roman Catholic Church; a nun;
a woman nurse in charge of a ward in a hospital;
a polite form of address to any woman, a stranger, one needs to ask or tell something,
religious sisters (nuns)
It is observed that every child hates his/her sister at one time or the other, especially when their parents show some extra attention to the sister.
A half-sister is the daughter of your own mother or father, but not both, which means you have blood relation with her through only one of your parents; a step-sister, on the other hand, is the daughter of the new husband of your mother or the new wife of your father, which means you have no blood relation with her at all, and a sister-in-law is the wife of your brother.
When John saw a woman walking towards him, he said: “Excuse me, sister. Could you tell me the way to the bus-station? I’m new around here.”
Sis. Agnes told the other sisters of her convent that they all must bear in mind that they were there to help the poor and the needy.
