sis
/sɪs/
sis is the clipping of sister.
sis is the pronunciation spelling of six.
Meaning of sister
Noun
sister (plural sisters or (archaic in most senses) sistren)
- A daughter of the same parents as another person; a female sibling.
- My sister is always driving me crazy.
- A female member of a religious order; especially one devoted to more active service; (informal) a nun.
- Michelle left behind her bank job and became a sister at the local convent.
- Synonyms:
- 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.
- A senior or supervisory nurse, often in a hospital.
- Synonyms:
- charge nurse
- Any woman or girl with whom a bond is felt through the same biological sex, gender or common membership in a community, race, profession, religion, organization, or ism.
- Connie was very close to her friend Judy and considered her to be her sister.
- A black woman.
- A fly sister rolled in with a suitcase full of hip-hop novels called The Glamorous Life, and an African brother with long dreads wanted to sell them some incense and some fake Jacob watches.2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 169
Meaning of six
Noun
six (plural sixes)
- A group or set with six elements.
- The digit or figure 6.
- how about 100 then? for 100, I wanted to pay homage to the people who have been using seximal this entire time. specifically, I used the word for six sixes found in the Ndom language, "nif".(Can we date this quote?), jan Misali, “what to call the numbers”, in seximal.net
- A playing card featuring six pips.
- A person who is six years old.
- The fives and sixes will have a snack first, then the older kids.
- Six o'clock.
- In Austria the prisoners rise at five, [...]. There are morning prayers at a quarter to six, after which the prisoners are conducted to work.1838, Francis Bisset Hawkins, chapter XIII, in Germany: The Spirit of Her History, Literature, Social Condition and National Economy, Illustrated by Reference to Her Physical, Moral and Political...
- Rear, behind (rear side of something).
- cover my six
Proper noun capitalized: SIS
SIS
- Initialism of Secret Intelligence Service.
- Synonyms:
- MI6, Six, 6, Secret Intelligence Service
- Initialism of Schengen Information System.
Noun (1) capitalized: SIS
SIS
- Initialism of second impact syndrome.
- Initialism of snow immersion suffocation.
- Initialism of student information system.
- Initialism of supervised injection site.
- Acronym of share-in-savings.
- Abbreviation of supplementary international search.
Noun (2) capitalized: SIs
SIs
- plural of SI
Synonyms of sis
Forms of sis
| plural | sises |
|---|---|
| plural | sisses |
Words formed from sis
Words that rhyme with sis
Questions about sis
- What is sis the clipping of?
- Sis is the clipping of sister.
- What part of speech is sis?
- Sis can be a proper noun or a noun.
- How do you pronounce sis?
- Sis is pronounced /sɪs/.
Words near sis in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: sis (page history and authors); SIS (page history and authors); SIs (page history and authors); sister (page history and authors); six (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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