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==English==

===Alternative forms===
* {{alter|en|sistern}}

===Etymology===
{{nonlemma}} Analysable as {{suf|en|sister|-en|id2=plural noun|pos2=plural ending}}.

===Noun===
{{head|en|noun form}}

# {{lb|en|archaic}} {{plural of|en|sister}}
#* {{quote-text|en|date=March 13 1570|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Md0hAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA444&dq=%22my+sistren%22|title=Will of David Tyrry Fitz Edmonde
|passage=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'''!
#* {{quote-web|en|date=2010-04-26
|title=The Calm Before the Storms
|site=Neo-Neocom
|url=http://neoneocon.com/2010/04/26/the-calm-before-the-storms/
|accessdate=2012-03-14
|passage=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.
}}
#* {{quote-web|en|date=2011-02-17
|author=Dave Lerner
|title=I Am Incubator
|site=Huffington Post
|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dave-lerner/i-am-incubator_b_824836.html
|accessdate=2012-03-14
|passage=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.
}}

====Usage notes====
* This form was lost in unmarked use by the sixteenth century. Since then, it has been most often used jocularly together with {{m|en|brethren}}, as in “brethren and '''sistren'''”.

===Noun===
{{en-noun|p}}

# {{lb|en|figuratively}} The (female) body of members, especially of a sorority or religious order.
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1997|author=Enrico Brizzi|title=Jack Frusciante Has Left the Band|passage={{...}} teachers, parents, and above all his classmates the seething masses of dutiful zombies and '''sistren''' of the Evervirgin Sorority.}}

====Coordinate terms====
* {{l|en|brethren}}

===Noun===
{{en-noun}}

# {{lb|en|rasta}} A close [[female]] [[friend]], [[family]] member, or [[comrade]].
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2014|author=[[w:Marlon James (novelist)|Marlon James]]|title=w:A Brief History of Seven Killings|publisher=Oneworld Publications (2015)|page=157|passage=Come out of the dark and come into the light, '''sistren'''.}}

====Coordinate terms====
* {{l|en|bredrin}}

===Anagrams===
* {{anagrams|en|a=einrsst|Inserts|Stiners|Strines|estrins|inserts|sestrin|sinters|sistern}}

{{C|en|Female family members|Female people}}

==Middle English==

===Noun===
{{head|enm|noun form}}

# {{alternative form of|enm|sustren|pos={{plural of|enm|suster}}}}