siblings

noun

plural of sibling
as in sisters
a person connected with another by a common parent I asked her if she had any siblings.

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Recent Examples of siblings The March 2025 law introduced a two-generation limit, cutting out his siblings. — Julia Buckley, CNN Money, 4 Aug. 2026 The siblings-in-law addressed comments from Alli McBee suggesting their relationship had been inappropriate. — Deirdre Durkan, PEOPLE, 4 Aug. 2026 Also premiering in the program is Luna’s film about two siblings forced to leave Mexico and head to Madrid to reunite with their mother, who had left a few years earlier to chase a better future. — Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 3 Aug. 2026 This unusual configuration suggests the Neptunian system evolved in a dramatically different way than those of its siblings. — Charles Q. Choi, Space.com, 3 Aug. 2026 The siblings went on to revive a lost original concept for a final film set in the world of The Wicker Man and shot entirely in Shetland discovered in their father’s papers. — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 3 Aug. 2026 When the siblings finally arrive, the bitter, suffocating reality that awaits them proves far harsher than Lucila had imagined. — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 3 Aug. 2026 The siblings, wearing matching Dodgers jerseys, then embraced. — Marina Watts, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Aug. 2026 Or maybe his creepy siblings are in the building also and soon Negan will be in the most terrifying encounter of his life. — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for siblings
  1. sisters
  2. relatives
  3. cousins
  4. brothers
  5. relations
Noun
  • Since its founding in 2014 by Danish sisters Julie and Marie Skall, the brand has worked exclusively with natural fibers.
    — Bella Webb, Vogue, 4 Aug. 2026
  • The sisters had bought the five-bedroom and four-bathroom pad from Jared Leto in the summer of 2017 and opened it to Architectural Digest in 2019.
    — Joyce Chen, Architectural Digest, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of sisters
Noun
  • In 2001, following Rina’s death, the family flew to Italy to visit their relatives.
    — Julia Buckley, CNN Money, 4 Aug. 2026
  • Police haven’t disclosed their names or those of the victims, but some victims have been identified by friends and relatives.
    — Michael Biesecker, Chicago Tribune, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of relatives
Noun
  • His sister ended up marrying an Italian man, and in 2016, Monasterios’ cousins decided to acquire Italian citizenship.
    — Julia Buckley, CNN Money, 4 Aug. 2026
  • That’s in stark contrast to their arachnid cousins, spiders, whose females that tend to be violent, attacking and eating the males.
    — Christa Lesté-Lasserre, Scientific American, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of cousins
Noun
  • Duff’s husband, Matthew Koma, shared a snap on Instagram Stories, in which the couple posed with both Madden brothers as well as Nicole Richie, who has been married to Joel since 2010.
    — Jami Ganz, New York Daily News, 6 Aug. 2026
  • The brothers say Scoops 'N' Smiles is about more than ice cream.
    — Madeleine Wright, CBS News, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of brothers
Noun
  • Postwar intellectuals used psychoanalytic ideas in a variety of ways, including to discuss race relations and homosexuality.
    — Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 4 Aug. 2026
  • Rather, the pivotal transactions, graphed like the peaks and valleys of a volatile stock index, are the relations between men and women.
    — Cynthia Zarin, Harpers Magazine, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of relations

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