sisterly
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈsɪstəli/
Audio (US): (file) - Homophone: systole (non-rhotic)
Etymology 1
From sister + -ly (adjectival suffix).
Adjective
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.
Derived terms
Translations
of or characteristic of a sister or sisters
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Etymology 2
From sister + -ly (adverbial suffix).
Adverb
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 February 19, Jack London, The Iron Heel, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC:
- "What honest man, who is not insane, would take lost women and thieves into his house to dwell with him sisterly and brotherly?"
Translations
like a sister
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