half-sister

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ˈhalf-ˌsister ●●○ noun [countable]  SSFa sister who is the daughter of only one of your parents 同父异母[同母异父]的姐妹 → half-brother

Examples from the Corpus

half-sister• Tut, meanwhile, married his half-sister, Ankhesenamen.• The more substantial is that the justices directed that T.'s contact with her older half-sister should be supervised.• Mrs Aitken, meet Shiona Fergusson, Kirsty's half-sister.• Mitchell rented it from the half-sister of the owner, a schoolteacher gone to Toronto with her three chil-dren.• The bees, they found, were more aggressive towards half-sisters.• Apart from his brother, he had one sister, one half-brother, and two half-sisters.• Mrs Grant invites her younger half-sister Mary Crawford to live with her at the parsonage.

ˈhalf-ˌsister nounChineseSyllable  

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half-sister
ˈhalf-ˌsister noun [countable]
a sister who is the daughter of only one of your parents ⇨ half-brother

half-sisterBrE /ˈhɑːf sɪstə(r)/ 🔊NAmE /ˈhæf sɪstər/ 🔊 nouna person's half-sister is a girl or woman who has either the same mother or the same father as them 同母异父（或同父异母）的姐妹  ➡  compare stepsister