sisterly
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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Adjective[edit]
sisterly (comparative more sisterly, superlative most sisterly)
- Of or characteristic of sisters.
- 2011 May 4, Jane Martinson, The Guardian:
- Burton designed both Middleton sisters' dresses in white, so that when Pippa picked up Kate's train in the abbey, the two of them were united, visually, in a display of sisterly togetherness.
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Translations[edit]
of or characteristic of a sister or sisters
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Adverb[edit]
sisterly (comparative more sisterly, superlative most sisterly)
- In the manner of a sister, behaving as one would expect of a sister; as a sister, as sisters.
- 1908, Jack London, The Iron Heel[1], New York: The Macmillan Company:
- "What honest man, who is not insane, would take lost women and thieves into his house to dwell with him sisterly and brotherly?"
Translations[edit]
like a sister
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