sib

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adjective
  1. related by blood; akin.

noun
  1. a kinsman; relative.

  2. one's kin or kindred.

  1. Anthropology. a unilateral descent group.

Origin of sib

1
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”; cf. gossip

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British Dictionary definitions for sib (1 of 2)

sib

/ (sɪb) /


noun
  1. a blood relative

  2. a brother or sister; sibling

  1. kinsmen collectively; kindred

  2. any social unit that is bonded by kinship through one line of descent only

Origin of sib

1
Old English sibb; related to Old Norse sifjar relatives, Old High German sippa kinship, Latin suus one's own; see gossip

British Dictionary definitions for SIB (2 of 2)

SIB

abbreviation for(in Britain)
  1. (the former) Securities and Investments Board

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