Noun

(dated) The state of being feminine.

A social theory or political movement arguing that legal and social restrictions on females must be removed in order to bring about equality of both sexes in all aspects of public and private life.

* {{quote-magazine

, date = 1926-11-27 , title = The Talk of the Town , magazine = The New Yorker , issn = 0028-792X , page = 17 , passage = Women are still forbidden to smoke there... Ardent though we are in feminism , we applaud this stand... }}

* {{quote-book

, year = 1996 , author = Jan Jindy Pettman , title = Worlding Women: A feminist international politics , pages = ix-x , passage = There are by now many feminisms' (Tong, 1989; Humm, 1992). Alongside and often overlapping with older-identified distinctions between liberal, socialist, radical and cultural '''feminisms''', for example (important as they are in their different accounts of sexual difference and gender power), are variously named black, third-world ethnic-minority ' feminisms , themselves far from homogenous. }}

Noun

(en-noun)

A daughter of the same parents as another person; a female sibling.

My sister is always driving me crazy.

A female member of a religious community; a nun.

Michelle left behind her bank job and became a sister at the local convent.

(British) A senior or supervisory nurse, often in a hospital.

Any woman or girl with whom a bond is felt through common membership of a race, profession, religion or organization, such as feminism.

Connie was very close to her friend Judy and considered her to be her sister .

* 1985 , (Eurythmics) and (Aretha Franklin), Who’s Zoomin' Who? :

[song title] Sisters Are Doin’ It for Themselves

(slang) A black woman.

(informal) A form of address to a woman.

* What’s up, sister ?

A woman, in certain labour or socialist circles; also as a form of address.

* Thank you, sister'''. I would like to thank the '''sister who just spoke.

(attributively) Of or relating to an entity that has a special or affectionate, non-hierachical relationship with another.

sister''' publication, '''''sister''' city'', '''''sister projects

(usually, attributively) In the same class.

sister''' ships'', '''''sister facility