Meaning

1 senses
  1. (in the plural, often)Used especially as a gender-neutral term: the child of one's sibling or sibling-in-law; one's nephew or niece.

Examples

6 sentences
  1. A nibling is the child of a sibling.

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  2. The child of a sibling is a nibling.

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  3. Her nibling lives in the Netherlands.

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  4. His nibling lives in the Netherlands.

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  5. Their nibling lives in the Netherlands.

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Translations

5 languages

Origin

Blend of nephew or niece + sibling, coined by the American linguist Samuel Elmo Martin (19

Blend of nephew or niece + sibling, coined by the American linguist Samuel Elmo Martin (1924–2009) in 1951.

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Forms

plural: niblings
Singularnibling
Pluralniblings

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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