Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One of two or more individuals having one or both parents in common; a brother or sister.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A member of a family born to the same parents; a brother or a sister considered without reference to sex.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective of or pertaining to a
sibling , n. - noun a brother or a sister.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who shares same
parents . One'sbrother orsister .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person's brother or sister
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Fighting, Fighting, and More Fighting:Does the word sibling have to be synonymous with the word fight?
Mothering Twins LINDA ALBI 1993
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Fighting, Fighting, and More Fighting:Does the word sibling have to be synonymous with the word fight?
Mothering Twins LINDA ALBI 1993
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Stand to Reason uses the term sibling rivalry to describe conflicting arguments used by the same party.
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Stand to Reason uses the term sibling rivalry to describe conflicting arguments used by the same party.
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Stand to Reason uses the term sibling rivalry to describe conflicting arguments used by the same party.
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The chance that my other sibling is a sister is (roughly) 50%.
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MM there the probability that if you are a male, your sibling is a female is 2/3
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MM there the probability that if you are a male, your sibling is a female is 2/3 tomemos Says:
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He cited the biblical parable of the prodigal son, in which the older sibling is envious of his dissolute brother, whose return home sparks a big party.
Greed may not be good for the economy, but envy is worse Carlos Lozada 2010
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In the MM pair, you ask each man if his sibling is male or female.
misterpolly commented on the word sibling
A very useful word and one that seems to be making a comeback. It works especially well with an adjectival function (sibling jealousy/rivalry). A bit unusual in the plural ("I have three siblings") where the speaker seems to be trying to hide something. Other European languages deal with this in different ways: in Italian your brothers and sisters are all "fratelli" (male gender still dominates) but in German they are "Geschwister" which sounds more feminine.
January 8, 2008
mollusque commented on the word sibling
Also used in sibling species.
January 8, 2008