Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete variant of
sister .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Sister.
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Examples
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Nevertheless, I'll be sure to update my photo after I get back from travelling to PA to volunteer for Hillary along with my suster and best friends - other young black women who support Hill!
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Sou hierdie persoon u eie ma, vrou of suster wees, sou u steeds kon se dat die lewe vir miljoene in Suid Afrika nie verbeter het nie?
SPEECH BY ANNELIZ� VAN WYK DURING THE STATE OF THE NATION DEBATE 2004
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Anyway my suster and I were at walmart so I decided to try out their photo studio since I had never used them before.
mamarobbi Diary Entry mamarobbi 2004
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I had a good ma an a good paw; one older bruther an one older suster, an a little bruther an a baby suster, too.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 1 Work Projects Administration
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Eðlate him ware wif ⁊ child suster ⁊ fader ⁊ broðer.
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall
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Et lete him were wif.child. suster. feder ⁊ broðer.
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall
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Þa ferde Eustace þe king {es} sune to france ⁊ na {m} þe king {es} suster of france to wife. wende to bigæton {170} normandi þær þurh. oc he spedde litel. ⁊ be gode rihte for he was an yuel man. for ware se he [com he] dide mare yuel þanne god. he reuede þe landes ⁊ læide mic [ele gilde] s on.
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall
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An 'I was no for stoppun' on after such-like, an 'I went tull stay along wuth me suster thot was married tull John Martin an' comfortable-off.
Samuel 1914
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An 'ot the door dudna her Aunt Fannie, her mother's suster, turn an' say loud for all tull hear: 'What for wull she be wantun' tull murder the wee thing? '
Samuel 1914
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In the Brigittine house of Syon "silence after some convenience is to be kepte in the lybrary, whyls any suster is there alone in recordyng of her redynge."
Old English Libraries; The Making, Collection and Use of Books During the Middle Ages 1911
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