Title of respect for an adult female member of a religious order.

Title of respect for an adult female member of a fraternal/sororal organization, or comrade in a movement, or even a stranger using fictive kin.

A title used to personify or respectfully refer to concepts or animals.

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

(informal) A female member of a religious order; especially one devoted to more active service; a nun.

Any butterfly in the genus Adelpha, so named for the resemblance of the dark-colored wings to the black habit traditionally worn by nuns.

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

Any woman or girl with whom a bond is felt through common membership in a community, race, profession, religion, organization, or ism.

(African-American Vernacular, slang, sometimes capitalized) A black woman.

(informal) A form of address to a woman.

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

(attributively) An entity that has a special or affectionate, non-hierarchical relationship with another.

(computing theory) A node in a data structure that shares its parent with another node.

(usually attributively) Something in the same class.

(transitive, construction) To strengthen (a supporting beam) by fastening a second beam alongside it.