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 Translation for 'older sister' from English to Finnish
NOUN   an older sister | older sisters
isosisko {noun}older sister
isoveli {noun}older brother
naut.
sisaralus {noun}
sister ship
kaksoissisar {noun}twin sister
ystävyyskaupunki {noun}sister city [Am.]
käly {noun}sister-in-law
isosisko {noun}big sister [coll.] [older sister]
elok.F
Kourallinen dynamiittia
Two Mules for Sister Sara [Don Siegel (1970 film)]
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Usage Examples English
  • During these years, Kerouac suffered the loss of his older sister to a heart attack in 1964 and his mother suffered a paralyzing stroke in 1966. In 1968, Neal Cassady also died while in Mexico.
  • An attorney, he had married Elias' older sister Annis Boudinot.
  • Edith was born to the reigning English king Edward the Elder by his second wife, Ælfflæd, and hence was a granddaughter of King Alfred the Great. She had an older sister, Eadgifu.
  • Lake Baikal is nicknamed "Older sister of Sister Lakes (Lake Khövsgöl and Lake Baikal)".
  • Sigismund's older sister Isabella died aged two in 1566.

  • She remained close to her younger sister Mimi up until Mimi's death in 2001 and mentioned in the 2009 "American Masters" documentary that she had grown closer to her older sister Pauline in later years.
  • She asked her older sister Victoria to intervene and help her reject Max politely.
  • He had an older sister, Barbara. Moore was brought up in the Becontree estate in Dagenham, Essex.
  • The Duke's guardian, Count Friedrich von Telramund, has accused the Duke's older sister, Elsa, of murdering her brother in order to become Duchess of Brabant.
  • Urd was one of a series of characters created by Kōsuke Fujishima, and is depicted as the older sister of Belldandy.

  • He also recalled hiding under a bed with his older sister, when a rioter stepped on his finger, causing his sister to throw her hand over his mouth to prevent the men from hearing his screams.
  • Tlaloc was the father of Tecciztecatl, possibly with Chalchiuhtlicue. Tlaloc had an older sister named Huixtocihuatl.
  • Her older sister Urðr (Urd) and her younger sister Skuld are important supporting characters in the story.
  • The Marx Brothers also had an older 'sister'—actually a cousin, born in January 1885—who had been adopted by Minnie and Frenchie. Her name was Pauline, or "Polly".
  • In 2014, Alexander was cast as older sister of Queen Latifah's title character in the HBO Film "Bessie" about iconic blues singer Bessie Smith.

  • Lopez is a middle child; she has an older sister, Leslie, and a younger sister, Lynda. The three shared a bedroom. She danced in school musicals and played a lead role in a production of "Godspell".
  • When Catherine was sixteen, her older sister Bonaventura died in childbirth; already anguished by this, Catherine soon learned that her parents wanted her to marry Bonaventura's widower.
  • She is the youngest of three children; her older sister is singer Kylie Minogue, while her brother Brendan is a news cameraman in Australia.
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