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# sister

«sister» in Mova's school dictionary: **a girl or woman who has the same parents as you** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (sister, sisters)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A sister is a girl or woman who has the same parents as you. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sister/#m1)

2) A half-sister shares one parent with you; a stepsister is the daughter of your stepparent. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sister/#m2)

3) A sister is also a nun, or a senior nurse in some hospitals. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sister/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

Maths: a person in the story who gets, gives or compares amounts; sisters counted; ages compared («3 years older») lead to add or subtract. Family words: brother, sibling, twin sister, big sister, little sister.

### examples

- Her sister is 3 years older. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sister/#x1)
- He gave half his candy to his sister. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sister/#x2)
- Ann has 2 sisters and 1 brother. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sister/#x3)
- How many apples does his sister have? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sister/#x4)
- My little sister is learning to walk. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sister/#x5)
- The twin sisters wore matching coats. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sister/#x6)
- Ask your big sister to help you with your homework. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sister/#x7)
- Sister Mary teaches music at the school. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sister/#x8)
- There was his sister chasing him. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sister/#x9)

### note

Countable: a sister, sisters; «sister's» (one), «sisters'» (many). A person; ages compared («older by») lead to add or subtract. Trap: ages of sisters stay apart by the same number of years forever. Trap: «Ann has 2 sisters» — Ann herself is not one of them, so the family has 3 girls.

### In the corpora

- [The children of a parent's partner can become your step-siblings: brothers or sisters through marriage, not by birth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/16-new-partners-and-step-families/13/)
- [A baby who shares only one parent with you is your half-brother or half-sister.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/16-new-partners-and-step-families/20/)
- [Tamarins and marmosets usually have twins, and the father and older brothers and sisters carry the babies most of the time.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/86-monkey-house-and-lemurs-of-madagascar/9/)
- [It has left its mother, brothers and sisters and the warm pile where it slept.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/326-a-puppy-at-home-the-first-weeks/1/)
- [«Well in» is a pun: the sisters are in the well, and «well in» also means deep inside.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/14-alice-a-mad-tea-party-2/24/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «sister» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sister/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.