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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.

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Beguine 76% connected

A woman belonging to one of the religious and charitable associations or communities in the Netherlands, and elsewhere, whose members live in beguina…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Half-sister 76% connected

A sister by one parent only.

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Stepsister 76% connected

A daughter of one's stepfather or stepmother by a former marriage.

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Member 76% connected

To remember; to cause to remember; to mention.

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Nun 76% connected

A woman devoted to a religious life, who lives in a convent, under the three vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience.

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Woman 76% connected

An adult female person; a grown-up female person, as distinguished from a man or a child; sometimes, any female person.

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Sisterhood 74% connected

The state or relation of being a sister; the office or duty of a sister.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Sisterhood 74% connected

The state or relation of being a sister; the office or duty of a sister.

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Sisterhood 70% connected

The state or relation of being a sister; the office or duty of a sister.

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Sis 92% connected

A colloquial abbreviation of Sister.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Aberration noun · 78% connection

A small periodical change of position in the stars and other heavenly bodies, due to the combined effect of the motion of light and th…

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Accusative adjective · 78% connection

Applied to the case (as the fourth case of Latin and Greek nouns) which expresses the immediate object on which the action or influenc…

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Brother noun · 78% connection

A male person who has the same father and mother with another person, or who has one of them only. In the latter case he is more defin…

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Brother german unknown · 78% connection

A brother by both the father's and mother's side, in contradistinction to a uterine brother, one by the mother only.

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Capital noun · 78% connection

one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis; "print…

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Capital letter noun · 78% connection

one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis; "print…

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Case noun · 78% connection

A box, sheath, or covering; as, a case for holding goods; a case for spectacles; the case of a watch; the case (capsule) of a cartridg…

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Christian noun · 78% connection

One born in a Christian country or of Christian parents, and who has not definitely becomes an adherent of an opposing system.

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Doe noun · 78% connection

A female deer or antelope; specifically, the female of the fallow deer, of which the male is called a buck. Also applied to the female…

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Elder adjective · 78% connection

Born before another; prior in years; senior; earlier; older; as, his elder brother died in infancy; -- opposed to younger, and now com…

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Exchange noun · 78% connection

The process of setting accounts or debts between parties residing at a distance from each other, without the intervention of money, by…

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Foster verb · 78% connection

Relating to nourishment; affording, receiving, or sharing nourishment or nurture; -- applied to father, mother, child, brother, etc.,…

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Genitive adjective · 78% connection

Of or pertaining to that case (as the second case of Latin and Greek nouns) which expresses source or possession. It corresponds to th…

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Govern verb · 78% connection

To require to be in a particular case; as, a transitive verb governs a noun in the objective case; or to require (a particular case);…

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Guaranty noun · 78% connection

In law and common usage: To undertake or engage that another person shall perform (what he has stipulated); to undertake to be answera…

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Half adverb · 78% connection

In an equal part or degree; in some pa/ appro/mating a half; partially; imperfectly; as, half-colored, half done, half-hearted, half p…

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Half blood unknown · 78% connection

The relation between persons born of the same father or of the same mother, but not of both; as, a brother or sister of the half blood…

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Hemihedral adjective · 78% connection

Having half of the similar parts of a crystals, instead of all; consisting of half the planes which full symmetry would require, as wh…

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