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sibling

[ sib-ling ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

a brother or sister.
Anthropology. a comember of a sib, a unilateral descent group thought to share kinship through a common ancestor.

sibling

/ ˈsɪblɪŋ /

Origin of sibling¹

before 1000; late Middle English: relative, Old English; sib, -ling ¹

Origin of sibling¹

C19: specialized modern use of Old English sibling relative, from sib ; see -ling ¹

Her adopted daughter tried to suffocate a younger biological sibling.

After losing her father and young sibling to Ebola, 6-year-old Liberian Miatta Urey is a symbol of hope in the midst of tragedy.

My father lost his last surviving sibling, my Aunt Sally, in 2007.

Wendy Kramer is co-founder, with her donor-conceived son Ryan, of the Donor Sibling Registry (DSR).

“Go on then,” she said, as if humoring a grating younger sibling.

We saw on our left the large monastery of Delaling, and, a little way off, the Gomba of Sibling.

The extended family groupings in terms of matrilocal residence or centered around a sibling group are amorphous but flexible.

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