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sib
[ sib ]
adjective
- related by blood; akin.
noun
- a kinsman; relative.
- one's kin or kindred.
- Anthropology. a unilateral descent group.
sib
1/ sɪb /
noun
- a blood relative
- a brother or sister; sibling
- kinsmen collectively; kindred
- any social unit that is bonded by kinship through one line of descent only
SIB
2abbreviation for
- (the former) Securities and Investments Board
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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.
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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