sisters
Convent community members
Sisters are female siblings—daughters of the same parents.
The bond between sisters often implies closeness and shared history: My sister and I talk every day.
Sister extends to women united by common cause, faith, or identity: sisters in the movement, the Sisters of Mercy.
In Black American usage, sister addresses or refers to a Black woman with warmth and solidarity.
Sister can modify nouns to indicate parallel or affiliated entities: sister cities, sister companies.
Fellow offspring
- brothersMale children of same parents
- relativesThose connected by blood
- kinBlood-connected people
- twinsSiblings born simultaneously
triplets · older · younger · middle · firstborn · stepsisters · adoptive · birth order
State of proximity
- intimacyEmotional closeness between people
- confidantesTrusted secret-keepers
- companionshipState of having company
- empathySharing another's emotions
camaraderie · affection · trust · support · togetherness · secrets · laughter · memories
Religious sisters' dwelling
- abbeyMonastic house of worship
- cloisterCovered monastic walkway
- habitSettled regular tendency
- vowsSolemn binding promises
celibacy · veil · novice · order · benedictine · monastery · chapel · prayers
Cooperative partners united together
- feminismAdvocacy for sex equality
- suffragettesFemale voting-rights activists
- sororityWomen's collegiate social organization
- empowermentGaining authority or confidence
movement · marches · support network · women's rights · advocates · collective · unity · mutual aid
Struggle for supremacy
- jealousyResentful desire for another's advantages
- envyResentful longing for another's
- bickeringPetty verbal sparring
- squabblesMinor heated disagreements
teasing · fighting · comparisons · hand-me-downs · tattling · favoritism · one-upmanship · resentment
Ancestry through generations
- lineageDescent from progenitors
- ancestryFamily line of descent
- heritageInherited cultural legacy
- genealogyStudy of family descent
clan · family tree · consanguinity · kindred · dynasty · descendants · forebears · matrilineage
siblings
Fellow offspring
twins · triplets · older · younger · middle · firstborn · stepsisters · adoptive · birth order · fraternal
closeness
State of proximity
- intimacyEmotional closeness between people
- confidantesTrusted secret-keepers
- companionshipState of having company
empathy · camaraderie · affection · trust · support · togetherness · secrets · laughter · memories · sleepovers
convent
Religious sisters' dwelling
vows · celibacy · veil · novice · order · benedictine · monastery · chapel · prayers · devotion
allies
Cooperative partners united together
- feminismAdvocacy for sex equality
- suffragettesFemale voting-rights activists
- sororityWomen's collegiate social organization
empowerment · movement · marches · support network · women's rights · advocates · collective · unity · mutual aid · consciousness-raising
competition
Struggle for supremacy
- jealousyResentful desire for another's advantages
- envyResentful longing for another's
- bickeringPetty verbal sparring
squabbles · teasing · fighting · comparisons · hand-me-downs · tattling · favoritism · one-upmanship · resentment · friction
bloodline
Ancestry through generations
genealogy · clan · family tree · consanguinity · kindred · dynasty · descendants · forebears · matrilineage · inheritance
- family termsparents, nuclear family, mothers, extended family, fathers
- womenmothers, women, females, gals, daughters
- kinshipmother, father, brother, children, parent
- family dramafamily bonds, sibling rivalry, family reunion, kinship, family secret
- siblingsbrother, twins, siblings, brothers, sib
- groups of girlsdaughters, schoolgirls, granddaughters, nieces, girl scouts
sistersstrangers
People unknown to you
enemies · rivals · outsiders · acquaintances · adversaries
- 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
sister, sisterly, sisterhood, stepsister, sister-in-law, half-sister, sistered, sisterhoods, unsisterly