weird sisters

American  

plural noun

1. The Fates.

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weird sisters British  

plural noun

1. another name for Fates

2. Norse myth the Norns See Norn 1

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Etymology

Origin of weird sisters

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400

Example Sentences

For me, it was more about if those weird sisters were around, what would they be doing?

From Salon • Sep. 9, 2022

The weird sisters, incarnated in the mesmerizing, smoky-voiced performance art of Kathryn Hunter, seem as much a fact of the natural world as the crows circling the gunmetal sky.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 14, 2022

Kathryn Hunter is downright otherworldly as all three of the shape-shifting, soothsaying weird sisters.

From New York Times • Dec. 22, 2021

Those familiar with “Macbeth” will instantly recognize the play’s three witches, embodied here by the great Kathryn Hunter as Shakespeare’s weird sisters rolled into a startling, unsettling, utterly glorious one-woman chorus.

From Washington Post • Dec. 21, 2021

Gray, in his ode of The Fatal Sisters, has embodied the Scandinavian myth in which the twelve weird sisters, the Valkiriur, weave "the crimson web of war" between the rising and setting of the sun.

From Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 by Tennent, James Emerson, Sir