sister
/ˈsɪs.tɚ/ nom A1En français : sœur, nonne, religieuse, bonne sœur
- A daughter of the same parents as another person; a female sibling. · My sister is always driving me crazy.
- A female member of a religious order; especially one devoted to more active service; (informal) a nun. · Michelle left behind her bank job and became a sister at the local convent.
- Any butterfly in the genus Adelpha, so named for the resemblance of the dark-colored wings to the black habit traditionally worn by nuns.
- 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. · Connie was very close to her friend Judy and considered her to be her sister.
- A black woman.
- A form of address to a woman. · What’s up, sister?
- A female fellow member of a religious community, church, trades union etc. · Thank you, sister. I would like to thank the sister who just spoke.
- An entity that has a special or affectionate, non-hierarchical relationship with another. · sister publication· sister city
Pluriel sisters
Dans la bibliothèque
Farewell, O brother, sister, sire!
Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, “and what is the use of a book,” thought Alice “without pictures or conversations?”
“Once upon a time there were three little sisters,” the Dormouse began in a great hurry; “and their names were Elsie, Lacie, and Tillie; and they lived at the bottom of a well—”
“And so these three little sisters—they were learning to draw, you know—”
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