"sistern" meaning in English

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      "expansion": "Middle English sisterne",
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      "expansion": "systerne",
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "sistren"
      },
      "expansion": "sistren",
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      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "sustren"
      },
      "expansion": "sustren",
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      "args": {
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      },
      "expansion": "sustern",
      "name": "m"
    },
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      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "sister",
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      "expansion": "sister + -en",
      "name": "af"
    },
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      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "brethren"
      },
      "expansion": "brethren",
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English sisterne, systerne, sistren, sustren, sustern, equivalent to sister + -en; or alternatively modelled after brethren.",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "word": "sistren"
        }
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1896, Ernest Emory Russell, The Reason why: A Story of Fact and Fiction, page 29",
          "text": "But, my dear brothern an' sistern, they hain't no water down thar— it's a awful thing to think they hain't, but they hain't, b'caze the Bible says they hain't.",
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        "Alternative form of sistren"
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        "(nonstandard) Alternative form of sistren"
      ],
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        {
          "word": "cistern"
        }
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  "word": "sistern"
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    {
      "args": {
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        "2": "systerne"
      },
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    {
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        "1": "enm",
        "2": "sustren"
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      "expansion": "sustren",
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        "2": "sustern"
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      "expansion": "sustern",
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    },
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        "1": "en",
        "2": "sister",
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      "name": "af"
    },
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      "args": {
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        "2": "brethren"
      },
      "expansion": "brethren",
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  "etymology_text": "From Middle English sisterne, systerne, sistren, sustren, sustern, equivalent to sister + -en; or alternatively modelled after brethren.",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "cistern"
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        {
          "word": "sistren"
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        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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        {
          "ref": "1896, Ernest Emory Russell, The Reason why: A Story of Fact and Fiction, page 29",
          "text": "But, my dear brothern an' sistern, they hain't no water down thar— it's a awful thing to think they hain't, but they hain't, b'caze the Bible says they hain't.",
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        "Alternative form of sistren"
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        "(nonstandard) Alternative form of sistren"
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