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noun ADJ. big, elder, older | baby, kid, little, small, wee, younger | twin | full (= sharing both parents) | half-(= sharing one parent), step-(also stepsister) (= the daughter from an earlier marriage of your stepfather or stepmother) | beloved, much-loved | dead, deceased, late | unmarried PHRASES brother and sister Have you got any brothers and sisters? | like sisters The girls are so close, they're like sisters.
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
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sister
adjectives
an older sister
( also an elder sister especially British English )
• He had two older sisters, Karen and Jacqueline.
a big sister
(= an older sister )
• She misses her big sister dreadfully.
a younger sister
• Mary showed a lot of aggressive behaviour towards her younger sister.
a little/kid sister
(= a younger sister )
• She was very fond of her little sister.
a baby sister
(= a sister who is still a baby )
• He wanted a baby sister.
a twin sister
• He is devoted to his twin sister.
a half-sister
(= a sister with only one parent the same as yours )
• She doesn't see her half-sister very often.
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Phrase(s): (soul) sister
a black person’s female, black friend. • Many of the top singing groups of the ’60s featured soul sisters.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs