Meaning of SIB
| Pronunciation: | | sib
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- [n] one related by blood or origin; especially on sharing an ancestor with another
- [n] a person's brother or sister
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| | Synonyms: | | blood relation, blood relative, cognate, sibling |
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| | See Also: | | family, family unit, half blood, quad, quadruplet, quin, quint, quintuplet, relation, relative, triplet, twin | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Sib\, n. [AS. sibb alliance, gesib a relative. [root]289.
See {Gossip}.]
A blood relation. [Obs.] --Nash.
\Sib\, a.
Related by blood; akin. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.] --Sir W.
Scott.
Your kindred is but . . . little sib to you. --Chaucer.
[He] is no fairy birn, ne sib at all To elfs, but
sprung of seed terrestrial. --Spenser.
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