sib

[ sib ]

adjective

1. related by blood; akin.

noun

1. a kinsman; relative.
2. one's kin or kindred.
3. Anthropology. a unilateral descent group.

sib

¹

/ sɪb /

noun

1. a blood relative
2. a brother or sister; sibling
3. kinsmen collectively; kindred
4. any social unit that is bonded by kinship through one line of descent only

SIB

²

abbreviation for

1. (the former) Securities and Investments Board

Word History and Origins

Origin of sib¹

First recorded before 900; Middle English sib(e), sibb(e), Old English sib(b) (originally an adjective); cognate with Old Norse sifjar (plural) “relatives,” Old Frisian sib (adjective), sibba (noun), Middle Dutch sibbe (noun and adjective), German Sippe “kin”; gossip

Word History and Origins

Origin of sib¹

Old English sibb; related to Old Norse sifjar relatives, Old High German sippa kinship, Latin suus one's own; see gossip

Example Sentences

You are a nice little thing, you know, Sib, although at present you are very unimportant.

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The pulpit of Kilmacolm was but too sib to the pew, and both pulpit and pew slept on together in undisturbed security.

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Sib´yl.Prophetess of Cumæ, who led Æneas down to the infernal Regions, 370-372.

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I immediately went in quest of the building he had mentioned—the Akab-sib.

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I long to ask him whether Douce Davie was any way sib to him.

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