| 单词 | sibling |
| 释义 | sibling (once / 3790 pages) n A sibling is your brother or sister. It's that simple. The word sibling once meant anyone who is related to you, but now it's reserved for children of the same parent or parents. It is a word that was once out of use but then brought back into English in the early 1900s as a useful word in anthropology. If you and your brother fight all of the time, your parents might call it sibling rivalry. You might just call him annoying and run from the room. WORD FAMILYsibling: siblings USAGE EXAMPLES“This allows us to screen genetically similar siblings on a very large scale.” Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) Our parents and siblings and friends and schoolmates will die. Salon(Jan 02, 2017) In the past, the presidents’ siblings and sons, while holding no official titles, often wielded enormous power as “junior presidents.” New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) n a person's brother or sister Syn|Hypo|Hyper sib half blood one of siblings who have only one parent in common quad, quadrupletone of four children born at the same time from the same pregnancy quin, quint, quintupletone of five children born at the same time from the same pregnancy tripletone of three offspring born at the same time from the same pregnancy twineither of two offspring born at the same time from the same pregnancy dizygotic twin, fraternal twineither of two twins who developed from two separate fertilized eggs identical twin, monozygotic twin, monozygous twineither of two twins developed from the same fertilized ovum (having the same genetic material) relation, relative a person related by blood or marriage |
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