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nonsister

noun

Etymology

From non- + sister.

  1. inherited from sistren
  2. prefixed as nonsister — “non + sister”

Definitions

  1. One who is not a sister.

    • While this point may have been an exaggeration, it does seem that for nonsisters, the first wife enjoyed considerable status, while subsequent wives, some of whom may have been “chore” or captive wives, had less.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for nonsister. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA