sibling
sibling — noun
1. someone who shares a parent with another person — either a brother or a sister.
someone who shares a parent with another person — either a brother or a sister.
Élise has two younger siblings who still live at home with her parents.
younger / older + sibling
With three siblings, Femi learned to share and compromise by taking turns picking the TV show.
learned to + [verb] + by + V-ing (sharing strategy)
When the youngest sibling in the Chen family turned twelve, the family surprised her with a piano.
Aylin and her siblings meet every Sunday for a big family lunch.
My siblings and I spent Saturday mornings at Grandma's house, learning folk songs on her old guitar.
- brother
specifically male; the most common term when gender is known
- sister
specifically female; the most common term when gender is known
- half-sibling
shares only one biological parent, not both
- stepsibling
not biologically related; related through a parent's remarriage
- only child
a person with no siblings at all
文法句型
sibling + of + person
possessive + sibling
用法筆記
Sibling is a gender-neutral alternative to brother or sister. Use it when the person's sex is unknown or unimportant to the context.
常見錯誤
2. a company, product, organization, or other entity that belongs to the same group
a company, product, organization, or other entity that belongs to the same group or family as another and is connected by a common origin or owner.
The airline's sibling company runs the hotel chain under the same brand.
sibling company / sibling brand
Tuan works for a French firm and its sibling office in Tokyo.
This coffee shop is the sibling brand of the famous bakery across town.
The bank and its sibling investment firm share the same chief executive.
- affiliate
a company that is partially owned or controlled by another; more formal
- subsidiary
a company fully owned by a larger parent company; implies hierarchy, not equality
- counterpart
a person or thing that has a similar position or function in a different group
- parent company
the main company that owns or controls a group of smaller ones
- parent organization
the overarching body that sibling entities belong to
文法句型
sibling + noun (attributive)
the sibling of + noun phrase
用法筆記
This sense is most often used before a noun as an attributive modifier (sibling company, sibling brand, sibling species). It is common in business and academic contexts.