The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word NUNS
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More clues leading to the result NUNS
- Sisters seen in Vatican, unsurprisingly
- Tsipras’s character borders on noxious for conventuals
- Religious people censoring love in parts of speech
- Sisters — one in France in the outskirts of Nimes
- Rising star keeping northern women in order
- Women prepared to follow orders
- Number one foreign song begins “Sisters!…”
- They often have to kneel in an unsophisticated life
- Organised students keep Northern women in order
- Sister’s descriptive words are out of love
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The straight part
We know that "Sisters" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case sisters = nuns.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does NUNS mean?
NUNS noun- A member of a Christian religious community of women who live by certain vows and usually wear a habit, (specifically) those living together in a cloister.
- (by extension) A member of a similar female community in other confessions.
- A prostitute.
- A kind of pigeon with the feathers on its head like the hood of a nun.
- The fourteenth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).