LITTLE SISTER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does little sister mean? 

• LITTLE SISTER (noun)
  The noun LITTLE SISTER has 1 sense:

1. a younger sister

  Familiarity information: LITTLE SISTER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LITTLE SISTER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A younger sister

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("little sister" is a kind of...):

sis; sister (a female person who has the same parents as another person)

 Context examples 

Ah, how the poor little sister did lament when she had to fetch the water, and how her tears did flow down her cheeks!

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

The next day Bessie was sent for home to the deathbed of her little sister.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Then it was that Jo, living in the darkened room, with that suffering little sister always before her eyes and that pathetic voice sounding in her ears, learned to see the beauty and the sweetness of Beth's nature, to feel how deep and tender a place she filled in all hearts, and to acknowledge the worth of Beth's unselfish ambition to live for others, and make home happy by that exercise of those simple virtues which all may possess, and which all should love and value more than talent, wealth, or beauty.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

It was very hard that she was not to have her own knife; it was her own knife; little sister Mary had left it to her upon her deathbed, and she ought to have had it to keep herself long ago.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Mealy's father was a waterman, who had the additional distinction of being a fireman, and was engaged as such at one of the large theatres; where some young relation of Mealy's—I think his little sister—did Imps in the Pantomimes.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Nevertheless he comforted his little sister, and said: “Do not cry, Gretel, go to sleep quietly, the good God will help us.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

When he had gone, she went to her little chapel, and sitting in the twilight, prayed for Beth, with streaming tears and an aching heart, feeling that a million turquoise rings would not console her for the loss of her gentle little sister.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

And when the full moon had risen, Hansel took his little sister by the hand, and followed the pebbles which shone like newly-coined silver pieces, and showed them the way.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Then he went back and said to Gretel: “Be comforted, dear little sister, and sleep in peace, God will not forsake us,” and he lay down again in his bed.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

When the seventh came to the bottom of his glass, and found there the ring, he looked at it, and knew that it was his father’s and mother’s, and said, O that our little sister would but come! then we should be free.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)