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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
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SIB

2

abbreviation for

  1. (the former) Securities and Investments Board
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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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
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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
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Example Sentences

The chance to sneak extra shreds of meat from an older sib could greatly boost nutrition.

Sibling combat plays another big part of the big-sib, little-sib dynamic.

From Time

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

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

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

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

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

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