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siblingship

/ˈsɪblɪŋˌʃɪp/

siblingship noun: the role or position of sibling.

Noun

siblingship (countable and uncountable, plural siblingships)

  1. The role or position of sibling.
    • It emerges that siblingships inevitably involve frictions in various forms.2014 July 11, Eva Gulløv, Charlotte Palludan, and Ida Wentzel Winther, “Engaging siblingships”, in Childhood, volume 22, number 4, →DOI
    • Both in the US and worldwide, siblingship is a common human experience, with there being 1.94 children per household in the US and 2.3 children per household worldwide.2024 May 27, Arya Choudhury, “The Science of Siblingship”, in The Cardinal Chronicle
    Synonyms:
    siblinghood

Synonyms of siblingship

Forms of siblingship

pluralsiblingships

Origin of siblingship

From sibling + -ship.

Questions about siblingship

What does siblingship mean?
Siblingship means the role or position of sibling.
What part of speech is siblingship?
Siblingship is a noun.
How do you pronounce siblingship?
Siblingship is pronounced /ˈsɪblɪŋˌʃɪp/.
What is the plural of siblingship?
The plural of siblingship is siblingships.

Words near siblingship in the dictionary

  1. siblinglike
  2. siblingly
  3. siblings
  4. siblings in law
  5. siblings-in-law
  6. siblingship
  7. siblingships
  8. sibmate
  9. sibmated
  10. sibmates
  11. sibmating

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Adapted from Wiktionary: siblingship (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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