sister
Brother's female counterpart
A sister is a female sibling—someone who shares at least one parent with you.
The term extends to women bound by shared experience or affiliation: sisters in the struggle, sorority sisters, nursing sisters.
In Black American English, sister (often shortened to sis) is a familiar term of address among women.
Sister also designates a nun: Sister Mary Catherine.
To sister something in construction is to reinforce it by attaching a parallel piece alongside.
Female parent
- fatherMale parent
- parentsMother and father
- grandparentsAncestors once removed
- nieceSibling's female offspring
nephew · aunt · uncle · cousins · daughter · relatives · household · ancestry
Male with shared parents
- twinOne of matched pair
- youngerLess old comparatively
- olderMore advanced in age
- middleCentral point or position
biological · adopted · fraternal · identical · triplets · firstborn · siblings · rivalry
State of proximity
- confidanteTrusted female friend
- trustConfidence in another
- loyaltyFaithful commitment to another
- supportTo uphold or sustain
understanding · protector · defender · advocate · champion · keeper · secrets · advice
Adult female human
- girlYoung female person
- femaleOffspring-bearing sex
- ladyCourteous term for woman
- womanhoodAdult female state
girlhood · women's · feminism · solidarity · empowerment · kinship · fellowship · community
mother
Female parent
- fatherMale parent
- parentsMother and father
- grandparentsAncestors once removed
niece · nephew · aunt · uncle · cousins · daughter · relatives · household · ancestry · lineage
brother
Male with shared parents
middle · biological · adopted · fraternal · identical · triplets · firstborn · siblings · rivalry
closeness
State of proximity
- confidanteTrusted female friend
- trustConfidence in another
- loyaltyFaithful commitment to another
support · understanding · protector · defender · advocate · champion · keeper · secrets · advice · shoulder
woman
Adult female human
womanhood · girlhood · women's · feminism · solidarity · empowerment · kinship · fellowship · community · network
convent
Religious sisters' dwelling
vows · novice · order · monastery · religious · Catholic · piety · chastity · obedience · celibacy
reinforce
Add strength to something
- familymother, father, parents, siblings, parent
- family lifebirth, kinship, childbirth, pregnancy, new baby
- family membersmother, father, brother, son, daughter
- humanityhuman, human being, humans, people, mankind
- relationshipsfriends, romantic, family, friend, flirting
- relativesmother, father, brother, aunt, uncle
sisterbrother
Male with shared parents
bro · half-brother · stepbrother · foster brother · brother-in-law
- big sisterOlder female sibling
- little sisterYounger female sibling
- older sisterFemale sibling born earlier
- younger sisterLater-born female sibling
- baby sisterYounger female sibling
- twin sisterSame-birth female sibling
sisters, sisterly, sister wives, sisterhood, stepsister, sister-in-law, half-sister, sistered, sister city