意味一覧 (2件)
きょうだい
解説 Definition
同じ親を持つ兄・姉・弟・妹の総称で、性別を限定せずに使える語。英語では brothers や sisters をまとめて表せるため、個々の性別や年長・年少を特定せずに家族関係を述べたいときによく用いられる。
A sibling is a brother or sister. This word is useful when you want to speak generally without saying whether the person is male or female. It is common in both everyday and formal English.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
sibling は brother と sister をまとめる一語で、同じ親を持つ兄・姉・弟・妹を性別や年上・年下に分けずに表せます。I have two siblings. なら「きょうだいが二人いる」で、兄か姉か弟か妹かまでは言いません。family tree や家族構成の説明で便利な中立的な語として覚えましょう。日常会話でも使えますが、brother / sister より少し分類ラベルらしい響きがあります。
`Sibling` is one word for a brother or a sister. It is useful when gender or birth order does not matter, as in `I have two siblings`. Think of it as a family-chart word for children of the same parents.
例文
My sibling and I are very close despite our age difference.
年齢は離れているが、私ときょうだいはとても仲がいい。
She has two siblings: an older brother and a younger sister.
彼女にはきょうだいが2人いて、兄が1人と妹が1人いる。
Sibling rivalry is common in many families.
きょうだい同士の張り合いは、多くの家庭でよく見られる。
兄弟姉妹
(意味 2)解説 Definition
sibling は、同じ親を持つ兄・姉・弟・妹を性別や年齢順に関係なく指す名詞です。家族構成を説明するときや、brother と sister をまとめて言いたいときに日常会話でも書き言葉でも使われます。
A sibling is a brother or sister, meaning someone who has the same parents as you. The word does not focus on gender or birth order, so it can refer to an older brother, a younger sister, or any brother or sister. It is commonly used when talking about family structure or when you want one general word instead of saying brother and sister separately.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
sibling は「兄弟姉妹」を性別に関係なくまとめて指す名詞です。古英語で「血縁者」を表す sib に由来し、brother や sister より中立的です。older sibling、younger sibling、sibling rivalry のように使い、家族内で同じ親をもつ相手という核を押さえると覚えやすいです。
Remember neverending as never + ending, meaning "with no end coming." In this word, the important feeling is often not something grand or eternal, but the tired feeling of emails, noise, questions, rain, work, or worry continuing without a break. It is close to constant or unceasing and is often used for things that keep coming one after another, as in "a neverending stream of complaints."
例文
I have one older sibling and one younger sibling.
私には年上の兄弟姉妹が1人と年下の兄弟姉妹が1人います。
She looks a lot like her sibling, especially around the eyes.
彼女は特に目元が兄弟姉妹によく似ています。
On the school form, you can list a sibling as an emergency contact.
学校の書類では、緊急連絡先として兄弟姉妹を書くことができます。
sibling の語源・成り立ち Etymology
sibling は古英語 sibb「血縁・親しさ」に、-ling「〜に属する人」が付いた語で、原義は「同じ血筋の者」です。sib や gossip（もとをたどると god-sib）も同根で、兄弟姉妹を個別でなく「家族のつながり」で捉える語だと分かります。
Sibling comes from Old English roots: sibb, meaning "kinship" or "family relation," plus -ling, meaning "a person connected with something." Its original sense was "one of the same family line." That focus on family connection is why the word later became a general term for a brother or sister. A related old root also appears in gossip, from god-sib.
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