sistren
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.11 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The (female) body of members, especially of a sorority or religious order.
noun
A close female friend, family member, or comrade.
Example Sentences
- "My wyfe to have my dwelling house during her widowhood, that is to say, the hall, the parlor, and the small seller: to my sistren Catheryn and Ellen Tyrry their grinding in my myll during their lives, paying noo toll nor multhe money."
- "2003 April 16 (airdate). Angel (TV series), episode "The Magic Bullet" LORNE: Blessings and moon pies, brethren and sistren!"
- "I see many of the brethren and the sistren are in the same place I was the other night, when Tatyana commented on my gloom."
- "Among my brethren and sistren in incubation I count the folks working at places like idealab, betaworks, alleycorp, as well as certain current and former university venture lab specialists I hold in high esteem."
- "[…] teachers, parents, and above all his classmates the seething masses of dutiful zombies and sistren of the Evervirgin Sorority."
- "Come out of the dark and come into the light, sistren."
Etymology
From Middle English sustren, plural of suster influenced by Old Norse systirin, plural of systir; the Old English plurals (of sweostor) were ġesweostor, ġesweostra, and ġesweostru. Analysable as sister + -en (plural ending).