Definitions
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- adjective Resembling a
sister or some aspect of one.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective like or characteristic of or befitting a sister
Etymologies
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Examples
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The first time I was with her, we automatically had a sisterlike bond.
Sterling singer, 13, wins $250,000 grant for cancer charity with videos Caitlin Gibson 2010
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Tom and I were both eventually single again, and as we moved up the work ranks over the months and years together, we became tighter friends, growing into a non–Blue Lagoon brother—sisterlike duo.
Live and Let Love Andrea Buchanan 2011
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Tom and I were both eventually single again, and as we moved up the work ranks over the months and years together, we became tighter friends, growing into a non–Blue Lagoon brother—sisterlike duo.
Live and Let Love Andrea Buchanan 2011
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Naomi and Ruth are friends, indeed sisterlike, each seeking the good of the other in a world over which they have little control.
Naomi: Bible. 2009
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Otherwise she gave him no sign that she was anything more in her heart than his sisterlike companion.
There Will Be Time Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1972
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Otherwise she gave him no sign that she was anything more in her heart than his sisterlike companion.
Two in Time Anderson, Poul 1970
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'I have found a way, mine own -- wish me joy, sisterlike -- to restore him to me or release me of my love for him.
The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil
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Peruke-makers; or Peruke-wearers, for Advocate and Judge are there, and all Heads of Districts: sober Nuns sisterlike with flaunting Nymphs of the Opera, and females in common circumstances named unfortunate: the patriot Rag-picker, and perfumed dweller in palaces; for Patriotism like New-birth, and also like Death, levels all.
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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