Usually means: Shares one biological parent only.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word half sister:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. half sister: Merriam-Webster
  2. half-sister, half sister: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. half sister: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. half-sister, half-sister: Collins English Dictionary
  5. half-sister: Vocabulary.com
  6. half-sister: Wordnik
  7. half-sister: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. half-sister, half sister: Wiktionary
  9. half sister: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. half sister: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Half-sister, half-sister, half sister: Dictionary.com
  12. half-sister: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Half-sister: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. half-sister: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. half sister: Rhymezone
  16. Half-sister: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. half-sister, half sister: FreeDictionary.org
  18. half-sister, half sister: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. half-sister, half sister: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. half sister: Vocabulary.com
  21. half sister: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Half-sister, half sister: Medical dictionary

(Note: See half_sisters as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (half sister)

▸ noun:  A female sibling sharing a single parent.

Similar:
stepsister, halfsister, half-sister, half sibling, half brother, full-sister, sister, full sibling, foster sister, blood sister, more...

Types:
paternal, maternal, fraternal, more...

Adjectives:
twice removed, avunculate, grand, grandfatherly, grandparental, aval, avuncular, german, nepotal, half, poppy

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Similar:
stepsister, halfsister, half-sister, half sibling, half brother, full-sister, sister, full sibling, foster sister, blood sister, more...

Types:
paternal, maternal, fraternal, more...

Adjectives:
twice removed, avunculate, grand, grandfatherly, grandparental, aval, avuncular, german, nepotal, half, poppy



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