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A person's brother or sister
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sibling
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Word definitions for sibling in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES saviour sibling sibling rivalry (= rivalry between brothers and sisters ) ▪ She had never overcome her feelings of sibling rivalry . COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE old ▪ Amal's older married siblings were living ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
sibling \sib"ling\ (s[i^]b"l[i^]ng), a. of or pertaining to a sibling , n.; as, sibling rivalry: the common rivalry between siblings.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"brother or sister," 1903, modern revival (in anthropology) of Old English sibling "relative, kinsman," from sibb "kinship, relationship; love, friendship, peace, happiness," from Proto-Germanic *sibja- "blood relation, relative," properly "one's own" (cognates: ...
Usage examples of sibling.
You get older daughters trying to protect younger siblings by doing anything they can to keep the abusive father focused on them.
It led them to settle on Ansatz in the forgiving dark, where they traded the fruits of their genius for dreams, in penance for the sins of their violent siblings.
Every eye in the crowd fell on the siblings as they left an ashy trail behind them on their way to the cardboard box.
Scylla and Briareus and walks forward into the palace as her siblings phase-shift.
Scylla and Briareus threw themselves at the Shrike, while the Hyperion demon raised four arms and threw itself in the direction of Nemes -- only to be intercepted by the siblings.
Although there had been a half-brother, he had never known him as a sibling and Centaine had raised Shasa as an only child.
But to achieve such skill as an accomplished rider, she had dedicated herself relentlessly to hours of training, something her fainthearted siblings had been disinclined to do soon after discovering they were not always safely ensconced in a sidesaddle.
He gave Fent a cold look that made his younger sibling quail in a new and unusual manner.
The tiny siblings greeted his arrival with weak squeals of joy, for instead of squashy kale pie, Jacko brought spicy chicken galantine, savory and strong.
These children and Girdlers were cursed with siblings to love, no choice in it, an accident of birth.
It was not that long after first light, in the old gompa beneath the Phallus Shiva now turned into Christian enclave, where John Domenico Cardinal Mustafa, Admiral Marget Wu, Father Farrell, Archbishop Breque, Father LeBlanc, Rhadamanth Nemes, and her two remaining siblings met in conference.
My siblings and I were working along the Hoolie River and on the Sea of Grass then.
On Kahu Hidi, had her egg been left in place and the venator survived, Frankie would have hatched first, then killed and eaten her dinosaur siblings.
Syr greets you in the name of she who is daughter of Audhumla, and in the name of all the Vanir, Children of the Nourisher, Siblings of the Vettir.
Thio, mother of the cell, and Tsanan, nurturer of myself and my siblings.