Daughter vs. Sister — What's the Difference?

A daughter is a female offspring- a girl or woman in relation to her parents. Daughterhood is the state of being someone's daughter.

A sister is a woman or girl who shares one or more parents with another individual. The male counterpart is a brother.

One's female child.

A female having the same parents as another or one parent in common with another.

A female descendant.

A kinswoman.

A woman considered as if in a relationship of child to parent

A woman fellow member, as of a sorority.

One that is personified or regarded as a female descendant

A fellow woman.

The immediate product of the radioactive decay of an element.

A close woman friend or companion.

Possessing the characteristics of a daughter; having the relationship of a daughter.

A fellow African American woman or girl.

Of or relating to a cell, organelle, or other structure produced by division or replication

A woman who advocates, fosters, or takes part in the feminist movement.

Produced by or resulting from the decay of a radioactive element

(Informal) Used as a form of address for a woman or girl.

One’s female offspring.

A member of a religious order of women; a nun.

A female descendant.

Used as a form of address for such a woman, alone or followed by the woman's name.

A daughter language.

Chiefly British A nurse, especially the head nurse in a ward.

(physics) A nuclide left over from radioactive decay.

One identified as female and closely related to another

A descendant.

(Architecture) A beam or other structural member affixed to another as a supplementary support.

(by extension) A female character of a creator.

Related by or as if by sisterhood; closely related

A familiar address to a female person from an older or otherwise more authoritative person.

(Genetics) Of or being one of an identical, related, or homologous pair

The female offspring of the human species; a female child of any age; - applied also to the lower animals.

(Architecture) To affix a beam or other structural member to (another) as a supplementary support.

A female descendant; a woman.

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

A son's wife; a daughter-in-law.

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

A term of address indicating parental interest.

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

A female human offspring;

(British) 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.

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.

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

Something in the same class.

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

To be sister to; to resemble closely.

A female who has the same parents with another person, or who has one of them only. In the latter case, she is more definitely called a half sister. The correlative of brother.

A woman who is closely allied to, or assocciated with, another person, as in the sdame faith, society, order, or community.

One of the same kind, or of the same condition; - generally used adjectively; as, sister fruits.

To be sister to; to resemble closely.

A female person who has the same parents as another person;

(Roman Catholic Church) a title given to a nun (and used as a form of address);

A female person who is a fellow member of a sorority or labor union or other group;

Sometimes used as a term of address for attractive young women