Lexic.us

Definition of Sistership

1. Noun. The kinship relation between a female offspring and the siblings.

2. Noun. An association or society of women who are linked together by a common religion or trade or interest.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sistership

sistergirl sistergirls sisterhood sisterhoods sistering sisterless sisterlike sisterliness sisterly sisterly love

sisters sisters-in-law sisters before misters sistership (current term) sisting sistra sistren sistroid sistrum sistrums

sists sisu sisyphus sit sit-and-go sit-and-goes sit-down sit-down money

Literary usage of Sistership

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Adventure Guide to the Virgin Islands by Lynne Sullivan (2000)
"The sistership Program is designed for women who want to learn to sail in a ... Full Sail and sistership encourage students who want to become good crew ..."

2. The Word by Harold Waldwin Percival (1913)
"... is love, is sistership. The Brotherhood Idea is complete only when it manifests both brothers and sisters. The case is clear. What follows from this? ..."

3. Sophocles by Sophocles (1902)
"... Ismene, in sistership germane, Know you in all our sire's entail of pain A thing the like of ..."

4. The Trade Union Woman by Alice Henry (1915)
"But in the sistership of womanhood, now for the first time admitted and hopefully accepted, fortunate and unfortunate clasp hands, and go forward to aid in ..."

5. Mrs. Brookfield and Her Circle by Charles Hallam Elton Brookfield, Frances Mary Brookfield (1905)
"... they are not to be bound by vows, but during their sistership to obey all the rules of the House, and their Superior is to be appointed by the Bishop, ..."

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