Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Sister.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A girl; a sweetheart; a jill: a familiar term.
- noun A familiar term of address to a little girl.
- noun An obsolete form of
sice .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A colloquial abbreviation of
sister . - noun obsolete Six. See
sise .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun informal Shortened form of
sister .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a female person who has the same parents as another person
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Examples
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"Te invocavi invoco divum Grabovium pro arce Fisia, pro urbe Iguvina, pro arcis nomine, pro urbis nomine: _volens sis, propitius sis_ arci
The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884
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Hi trupti nice chutney. my sis is a big fan of this tomatoes. she will take if we give her tomato dishes for a ful week also. hee hee ..
JFI- Tomato: Idlis with Tomato Chutney Cardamom 2007
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I wonder if anything can be done about what I call my sis's 'city-folk complex' ...
IGN Complete 2009
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I wonder if anything can be done about what I call my sis's 'city-folk complex' ...
IGN Complete 2008
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My sis is coming to vist in a week and bringing me some. ummmmm.
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So my sis is visiting me and she's in the middle of playing GHIII and suddenly the Xbox starts emitting a terrible grinding noise.
Archive 2008-03-01 SVGL 2008
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In general I think that genre analysis is an underappreciated tool (I will assert that without bothering to prove it — making my current genre: pompously proclaiming).
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As always with S.S.R. Datta, the analysis is nuanced and, it seems to me, correct.
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My mom and middle sis have very dark brown hair, with very pale skin (like mine), and younger sis is a dark blond with almost olive skin (dad†™ s influence).
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I think your point about genre analysis is really interesting, Dan.
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