(~s)
Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.
1.
Your ~ is a girl or woman who has the same parents as you.
His ~ Sarah helped him.
...Vanessa Bell, the ~ of Virginia Woolf...
I didn’t know you had a ~.
N-COUNT: oft poss N
see also half-~ , step~
2.
Sister is a title given to a woman who belongs to a religious community.
Sister Francesca entered the chapel.
...the Hospice of the Sisters of Charity at Lourdes.
N-COUNT; N-TITLE; N-VOC
3.
A ~ is a senior female nurse who supervises part of a hospital. (BRIT)
Ask to speak to the ~ on the ward...
Sister Middleton followed the coffee trolley.
N-COUNT; N-TITLE; N-VOC
4.
You can describe a woman as your ~ if you feel a connection with her, for example because she belongs to the same race, religion, country, or profession.
Modern woman has been freed from many of the duties that befell her ~s in times past.
N-COUNT: usu poss N
5.
You can use ~ to describe something that is of the same type or is connected in some way to another thing you have mentioned. For example, if a company has a ~ company, they are connected.
...the International Monetary Fund and its ~ organisation, the World Bank.
ADJ: ADJ n