Definición de "sister"
Formas de la palabra: plural sisters
1. sustantivo contable [oft poss NOUN]
Your sister is a girl or woman who has the same parents as you.
2. See also half-sister, stepsister
3. sustantivo contable & título sustantivo
4. sustantivo contable & título sustantivo
[British]
5. sustantivo contable [usually poss NOUN]
You can describe a woman as your sister if you feel a connection with her, for example because she belongs to the same race, religion, country, or profession.
6. adjetivo [ADJECTIVE noun]
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sister in British English
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Origen de la palabra sister
Old English sweostor; related to Old Norse systir, Old High German swester, Gothic swistarFrecuencia de uso de la palabra
sister in American English
sustantivo
1.
a woman or girl as she is related to the other children of her parents
sometimes also used of animals3.
a stepsister
4.
a foster sister
6.
a female fellow member of the same race, church, profession, organization, etc.
sorority sister, soul sister
8.
10. Informal
any woman
often used as a familiar term of address adjetivo
11.
related or seeming to be related as sisters
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Origen de la palabra sister
ME < ON systir (akin to OE sweoster > dial. suster), akin to Ger schwester < IE *swesor-, sister (> Sans svasar, L soror, OIr siur) < *sewe-, (one's) own, refl. pron. (see suicide) + *sor-, woman: hence, lit., woman of our (family)
Frecuencia de uso de la palabra
sister in American English
(ˈsɪstər)
sustantivo
2. Also called: half sister
a female offspring having only one parent in common with another offspring
3.
stepsister
5.
The ships are sisters
6.
a female fellow member, as of a church
7.
9.
a fellow Black woman
10.
11. informal
a form of address used to a woman or girl, esp. jocularly or contemptuously
Listen, sister, you've had enough
adjetivo
13.
We correspond with school children in our sister city
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Formas derivadas
sisterless adjetivo
sisterlike
adjetivo
Origen de la palabra sister
[bef. 900; ME (n.) ‹ ON systir; c. OE sweoster, D zuster, G Schwester, Goth swistar; akin to Serbo-Croatian sèstra, Lith sesuõ, L soror (‹ *swesor), OIr siur, Welsh chwaer, Skt svasar sister, Gk éor daughter, niece]Ejemplos de frases que contienen "sister"
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Inglés británico: sister
/ˈsɪstə/ NOUN
Your sister is a girl or woman who has the same parents as you.
My sister is younger than me.
- Inglés americano: sister /ˈsɪstər/
- Árabe: أُخْت
- Portugués brasileño: irmã
- Chino: 姐妹 older sister
- Croata: sestra
- Checo: sestra
- Danés: søster
- Holandés: zus
- Español europeo: hermana
- Finlandés: sisar
- Francés: sœur
- Alemán: Schwester
- Griego: αδελφή
- Italiano: sorella
- Japonés: 姉妹
- Coreano: 언니 female’s elder sister
- Noruego: søster
- Polaco: siostra
- Portugués: irmã
- Rumano: soră
- Ruso: сестра
- Español: hermana
- Sueco: syster
- Tailandés: พี่สาวหรือน้องสาว
- Turco: kız kardeş
- Ucraniano: сестра
- Vietnamita: em gái younger sister
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