Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One of two or more individuals having one or both parents in common; a brother or sister.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A member of a family born to the same parents; a brother or a sister considered without reference to sex.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. a brother or a sister.
- adj. of or pertaining to a sibling, n.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a person's brother or sister
Etymologies
- Middle English, from Old English, from sibb, kinsman; see sib. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Fighting, Fighting, and More Fighting:Does the word sibling have to be synonymous with the word fight?”
“Stand to Reason uses the term sibling rivalry to describe conflicting arguments used by the same party.”
“MM there the probability that if you are a male, your sibling is a female is 2/3”
“MM there the probability that if you are a male, your sibling is a female is 2/3 tomemos Says:”
“The chance that my other sibling is a sister is (roughly) 50%.”
“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.”
The Washington Post: Greed may not be good for the economy, but envy is worse
“In the MM pair, you ask each man if his sibling is male or female.”
“Given a male child with one sibling, what are the chances that the sibling is female?”
“Usually the arrival of a secret sibling is a good sign that a show's out of creative gas.”
“Nnemkadi said her 6-3 sibling is more advanced at her age than she was.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘sibling’.
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
a, abandon, ability, able, abortion, about, above, abroad, absence, absolute, absolutely, absorb and 4334 more...
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How do you like Kipling?
Words which fit the joke format: "How do you like X-in(g)? I don't know, I've never X-ed".
kipling, duckling, fingerling, groundling, chickling, chitterling, changeling, gosling, yearling, hireling, inkling, quisling and 98 more...
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wordsmithing part deux
because wordsmith is not a verb.
enmity, incarnate, chignon, nape, solitude, nocturne, decorum, warren, svelte, interstice, serene, charlotte and 488 more...
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MsHalston's Words
theoretically, insufferable, apolitico, milquetoast, egregious, aplomb, elan, fraught, flummox, befrocked, moll, molten and 605 more...
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abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abide, abject, abjure and 4874 more...
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aprilzhang's Words
botrytis, moscato, sibling, beerenauslese, prosecco, obi-wan, herbology, dispensable, drool over, rustle up, jetsetter, hill-fort and 2 more...
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February
boast, brag, gaff, overtake, meld, pheasant, shuck, scold, snatch, stand up, bail on, fetch and 18 more...
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March 1st
wing, embrace, colleagues, sibling, upbringing, instead, restructured, success, threat, responsible, role, helped and 1 more...
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fred's string
this list is a list.
shingle, inflatable, throbbing, bludge, tendon, weiner, gutter, bong, glacier, kite, giggle, sibling and 52 more...
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fredthecat's Words
befuddle, misanthrope, fungible, catharsis, deciduous, sibling, quadruped, amethyst, sibilant, arbitrage, paradigm, phosphorescence and 3 more...
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silg's Words
baby, ambivalence, backdrops, stream, catapult, karass, vacant, void, swoon, syrup, fragile, sibling and 9 more...
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alishascellar's Words
dwindle, moist, hump, scrumpy, waffle, urn, pancake, gurn, hippocampus, poo, shambles, ricochet and 19 more...
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Webs
Words about relations.
novercal, phratry, stirps, spindle kin, kinnery, ashram, filiation, phratria, deme, apparentation, homology, spear kin and 41 more...
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It's All Relative
parent, child, sibling, mother, father, brother, sister, grandfather, grandmother, aunt, uncle, cousin and 22 more...
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Words found in books
Interesting, memorable and uncommon words found in works of fiction
squire, ponce, slapstick, scoff, merriment, brethren, gormless, tantalizing, jostle, cumulo-nimbus, sequin, dejectedly and 36 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for sibling.
mollusque Also used in sibling species. Jan 7, 2008
misterpolly 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. Jan 7, 2008