Definition of half brother
: a brother related through one parent only
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George is my half brother.
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But not even all FLDS members knew exactly what was going on there, including one of Warren’s half brothers, Wallace Jeffs.
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Tevez's half brother is currently serving 16 years in prison following his part in an armed robbery in 2010.
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Bar band lead singer Roger Clinton, meanwhile, got a short-lived record deal out of his family’s rise to fame — and later, a pardon from his half brother Bill for his 1985 cocaine-dealing conviction.
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According to Clarin Sports, the former Manchester United and Manchester City man was visiting his half brother Juan Alberto Martinez at Bouwer's maximum security prison in Cordoba, when the incident allegedly took place.
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Kalibak Kalibak, Darkseid's oldest son, would love nothing more than to destroy his half brother Orion, and a battle between them would serve as a great warm-up for Orion before his main event against Darkseid.
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Dissidents are thrown into prison camps, and Kim Jong-un has had hundreds of people killed, including his own uncle, and, it is widely believed, his half brother.
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South Korea's government suspects him of ordering the killing of his exiled half brother, Kim Jong Nam, a potential rival who was poisoned with a toxic nerve agent in Malaysia last year.
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Kim Jong Chol Kim Jong Chol, 35, is Kim Jong Un’s half brother.
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First Known Use of half brother
14th century
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Definition of half brother for English Language Learners
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: a brother with the same father but a different mother or the same mother but a different father
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