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▸ noun: A female member of a religious order; especially one devoted to more active service; (informal) a nun.
▸ noun: Any butterfly in the genus Adelpha, so named for the resemblance of the dark-colored wings to the black habit traditionally worn by nuns.
▸ noun: (British) A senior or supervisory nurse, often in a hospital.
▸ noun: 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.
▸ noun: (African-American Vernacular, slang, sometimes capitalized) A black woman.
▸ noun: (informal) A form of address to a woman.
▸ noun: A female fellow member of a religious community, church, trades union etc.
▸ noun: (attributively) An entity that has a special or affectionate, non-hierarchical relationship with another.
▸ noun: (computing theory) A node in a data structure that shares its parent with another node.
▸ noun: (usually attributively) Something in the same class.
▸ verb: (transitive, construction) To strengthen (a supporting beam) by fastening a second beam alongside it.
▸ verb: (obsolete, transitive) To be sister to; to resemble closely.
▸ noun: Title of respect for an adult female member of a religious order.
▸ noun: Title of respect for an adult female member of a fraternal/sororal organization, or comrade in a movement, or even a stranger using fictive kin.
▸ noun: A title used to personify or respectfully refer to concepts or animals.
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older sister,
younger sister,
middle sister,
only sister,
half sister,
step sister,
sister-in-law,
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