SIBLING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sibling mean? 

• SIBLING (noun)
  The noun SIBLING has 1 sense:

1. a person's brother or sister

  Familiarity information: SIBLING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SIBLING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person's brother or sister

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

sib; sibling

Hypernyms ("sibling" is a kind of...):

relation; relative (a person related by blood or marriage)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sibling"):

half blood (one of siblings who have only one parent in common)

quad; quadruplet (one of four children born at the same time from the same pregnancy)

quin; quint; quintuplet (one of five children born at the same time from the same pregnancy)

triplet (one of three offspring born at the same time from the same pregnancy)

twin (either of two offspring born at the same time from the same pregnancy)

Holonyms ("sibling" is a member of...):

family; family unit (primary social group; parents and children)

 Context examples 

NOTE(S): This class helps represent an AND relationship between siblings with the same parent activity.

(Defined Composition Relationship, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

A male relative who is a sibling of either of the biological parents, and who share a common ancestor.

(Biological Uncle, NCI Thesaurus)

NOTE(S): This class helps represent an AND relationship between siblings in the same criterion group.

(Defined Criterion Group Composition Relationship, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

NOTE(S): This class helps represent an OR relationship between siblings in the same criterion group.

(Defined Criterion Group Option Relationship, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

The parents, siblings, or children of an individual.

(First Degree Relative, NCI Dictionary)

The children with ASD scored lower on each skill than did either of their parents or siblings.

(Oxytocin affects facial recognition, NIH)

The planets Uranus and Neptune are sometimes referred to as "ice giants" to distinguish them from their larger siblings, Jupiter and Saturn, the classic "gas giants."

(Cassini spies the ice-giant planet Uranus, NASA)

Now, a team of researchers led by the University of Cambridge have used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to search for planetary ‘siblings’ to this infant hot Jupiter.

(Giant planets around young star raise questions about how planets form, University of Cambridge)

Larger differences occurred in twins where only one sibling had autism.

(Baby teeth link autism and heavy metals, NIH)

Through a similar process, the team also distinguished individual sibling and twin pairs from unrelated pairs in both children and adults.

(Brain Activity Is Inherited, May Inform Treatment for ADHD, Autism, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)