What is English word SISTER?

Definitions of SISTER

1. A daughter of the same parents as another person; a female sibling.
2. Any butterfly in the genus Adelpha, so named for the resemblance of the dark-colored wings to the black habit traditionally worn by nuns.
3. Any woman or girl with whom a bond is felt through common membership in a community, race, profession, religion, organization, or ism.
4. A woman, in certain religious, labour or socialist circles; also as a form of address.
5. Title of respect for an adult female member of a religious order.
6. Title of respect for an adult female member of a fraternal/sororal organization, or comrade in a movement, or even a stranger using fictive kin.
7. A title used to personify or respectfully refer to concepts or animals.
8. A female member of a religious order; especially one devoted to more active service; (informally) a nun.
9. (British) A senior or supervisory nurse, often in a hospital.
10. (AAVE, slang, sometimes, capitalized) A black woman.
11. (informal) A form of address to a woman.
12. (attributively) An entity that has a special or affectionate, non-hierarchical relationship with another.
13. (comptheory) A node in a data structure that shares its parent with another node.
14. (usually, attributively) Something in the same class.
15. (transitive, construction) To strengthen (a supporting beam) by fastening a second beam alongside it.
16. (obsolete, transitive) To be sister to; to resemble closely.