英和和英

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪstəli/
• Homophone: systole (in non-rhotic accents)

形容詞

sisterly (comparative more sisterly, superlative most sisterly)

1. Of or characteristic of sisters.
   • 2011, Jane Martinson, The Guardian, 4 May 2011:

     Burton designed both Middleton sisters' dresses in white, so that when Pippa picked up Kate's train in the abbey, the two of them were united, visually, in a display of sisterly togetherness.

副詞

sisterly (comparative more sisterly, superlative most sisterly)

1. In the manner of a sister, behaving as one would expect of a sister; as a sister, as sisters.
   • 1908, Jack London, The Iron Heel‎^[1], New York: The Macmillan Company:

     "What honest man, who is not insane, would take lost women and thieves into his house to dwell with him sisterly and brotherly?"