HALF-SISTER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does half-sister mean? 

• HALF-SISTER (noun)
  The noun HALF-SISTER has 1 sense:

1. a sister who has only one parent in common with you

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• HALF-SISTER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A sister who has only one parent in common with you

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

half-sister; half sister; stepsister

Hypernyms ("half-sister" is a kind of...):

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

 Context examples 

Some have whispered to you that she is my bastard half-sister: some, my cast-off mistress.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)