| 单词 | thesaurus/articles/a-sibling |
| 释义 | Thesaurus article:a siblinga siblingThe two most common words to describe a person who has the same parents as you arebrotherfor a male relative with the same parents as you, andsisterfor a female relative with the same parents as you. How many brothers does she have? I'm one of three sisters. Siblingis not as common asbrotherorsister, but it is gender-neutral.Siblingis used more in writing. Do you have any siblings? Sibis an informal word for a sibling. His celebrity sib was always in the tabloids. The wordfirstborncan be used as a noun or an adjective to refer to the first child who is born to a set of parents. She's my firstborn. Property passes to the firstborn male. If your mother or father marries someone who is not your parent and that person already has a child, then you would call that child yourstepbrotheror yourstepsister. You can also use the gender-neutralstep-siblingthough it is not as common. Do you have any stepbrothers? I have one brother and two stepsisters. My step-siblings and I are going on holiday together. If you only share one birth parent with a sibling, then that sibling is called yourhalf-brotheror yourhalf-sister. There is no common gender-neutral term for a half-brother or half-sister. He's my half-brother: we have the same mother, but different fathers. She found out when she was older that she had a half-sister she didn't know about. Siblings who are born at the same time are given different names depending on how many children are born at the same time. If two children are born at the same time, they are calledtwins. When twins grow from the same egg, they look the same and so are calledidentical twins. If twins grow from different eggs and so look different, they are calledfraternal twinsornon-identical twins.Non-identical twinis not as common asfraternal twin, though it is more common in written UK English than in US English. She had three children, a daughter and twin boys. The boys are twins. Are your girls identical twins? She had fraternal twins - a girl and a boy. The girls were non-identical twins. Three children who are born at the same time are calledtriplets, four children are calledquadruplets, and five children are calledquintuplets. The film was about a trio of famous triplets. Quadruplets are extremely rare. Only 16 sets of quintuplets were born in the entire United States in 1997. Related articlesyour parents your child a grandparent a grandchild your relatives |
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