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sibling
[ sib-ling ]
noun
- a brother or sister.
- Anthropology. a comember of a sib, a unilateral descent group thought to share kinship through a common ancestor.
adjective
- of or relating to a brother or sister:
sibling rivalry.
sibling
/ ˈɪɪŋ /
noun
- a person's brother or sister
- ( as modifier )
sibling rivalry
- any fellow member of a sib
Other Word Forms
- -lԲ noun
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of sibling1
Example Sentences
She is survived by her daughter Piper, her son Trevor, and her siblings Karen and Michael and four grandchildren.
The eldest of five siblings, he often described their bond as being "as close as the fingers of one hand."
"It was a different way of trying to bond with a sibling, for sure," added the 33-year-old.
She was staying with her mother, father, four siblings and grandmother — affectionately known as Nema — at the Pasadena Convention Center, which had been transformed into an emergency relief facility.
When her own mother visited two years after she and her siblings arrived at the school, it was to inform them that she’d remarried and had no room for them.
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