Definition of sister

"sister" in the noun sense

1. sister, sis

a female person who has the same parents as another person

"my sister married a musician"

2. Sister

Roman Catholic Church) a title given to a nun (and used as a form of address

"the Sisters taught her to love God"

3. sister

a female person who is a fellow member of a sorority or labor union or other group

"none of her sisters would betray her"

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Quotations for sister

Twin sister of awkwardness. [ Mrs. Barbauld ]

Indulgence, twin sister of guilt [ Mme. Necker ]

Raw Haste, half-sister to Delay. [ Tennyson ]

Fidelity is the sister of justice. [ Horace ]

Poetry, the sister-spirit of music. [ Mme. le Vert ]

Every art cherishes its sister arts. [ Horace ]

Tomorrow yet would reap today.
As we bear blossoms of the dead;
Earn well the thrifty months, nor wed
Raw Haste, half-sister to Delay. [ Tennyson ]

Earn well the thrifty months, nor wed
Raw Haste, half-sister to Delay. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

Immortality - twin sister of Eternity. [ J. G. Holland ]

Hang-head Bluebell.
Bending like Moses' sister over Moses,
Full of a secret that thou dar'st not tell! [ George MacDonald ]

Eternal Hope! when yonder spheres sublime
Pealed their first notes to sound the march of Time,
Thy joyous youth began - but not to fade -
When all thy sister planets have decayed; [ Thomas Campbell ]

Poetry, the eldest sister of all arts, and parent of most. [ Congreve ]

The brother had rather see his sister rich, than make her so. [ Proverb ]

Jealousy is the sister of love, as the devil is the brother of angels. [ Boufflers ]

Then sculpture and her sister arts revived; stones leaped to form, and rocks began to live. [ Pope ]

Women only call each other sister after they have called each other a lot of other things first. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]

Fuss is half-sister to Hurry, and neither of them can do any thing without getting in their own way. [ Henry Wheeler Shaw (pen name Josh Billings) ]

Poetry is the sister of Sorrow. Every man that suffers and weeps is a poet; every tear is a verse, and every heart a poem. [ Marc Andre ]

Religion is the eldest sister of philosophy: on whatever subjects they may differ, it is unbecoming in either to quarrel, and most so about their inheritance. [ Landor ]

Death is a mighty mediator. There all the flames of rage are extinguished, hatred is appeased, and angelic pity, like a weeping sister, bends with gentle and close embrace over the funeral urn. [ Schiller ]

Lover, daughter, sister, wife, mother, grandmother: in those six words lies what the human heart contains of the sweetest, the most ecstatic, the most sacred, the purest, and the most ineffable. [ Massias ]

Education does not commence with the alphabet; it begins with a mother's look, with a father's nod of approbation, or a sign of reproof; with a sister's gentle pressure of the hand, or a brother's noble act of forbearance. [ G. A. Sala ]

The iron hand of necessity commands, and her stern decree is supreme law, to which the gods even must submit. In deep silence rules the uncounselled sister of eternal fate. Whatever she lays upon thee, endure; perform whatever she commands. [ Goethe ]

The drama embraces and applies all the beauties and decorations of poetry. The sister arts attend and adorn it. Painting, architecture, and music are her handmaids. The costliest lights of a people's intellect burn at her show. All ages welcome her. [ Willmott ]

Music may be classed into natural, social, sacred, and martial; it is the twin sister of poetry, and like it has the power to sway the feelings and command the mind; in devotion it breathes the pure spirit of inspiration and love; in martial scenes it rouses the soul to fearless deeds of daring and valor, while it alleviates the cares, and enhances the innocent and cheerful enjoyments of domestic life. [ Acton ]

sister in Scrabble®

The word sister is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 6

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sister in Words With Friends™

The word sister is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 6

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Words within the letters of sister

2 letter words in sister (3 words)

3 letter words in sister (7 words)

4 letter words in sister (13 words)

6 letter words in sister (Anagrams) (3 words)

Word Growth involving sister

Shorter words in sister

is

Longer words containing sister

bedsister bedsisters

halfsister halfsisters

resister nonresister nonresisters

resister resisters nonresisters

sistered

sisterhood sisterhoods

sisterinlaw sisterinlaws

sisterless

sisterlike unsisterlike

sisterliness

sisterly

sisters bedsisters

sisters halfsisters

sisters resisters nonresisters

sisters sistership sisterships

sisters sistersinlaw

sisters stepsisters

sisters subsisters

stepsister stepsisters

subsister subsisters