Nibling

Quick meaning: Nibling is a noun meaning (originally chiefly anthropology, often in the plural) Used especially as a gender-neutral term: the child of one's sibling or sibling-in-law; one's nephew or niece.

Meaning

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

Example Sentences

But, it is my niblings who taught me how to love.

She [Viola Edmundson Garfield] was close to her family, particularly her younger “siblings and niblings.”

Very recently I heard an informant respond with cousin to my question about the “child of nibling” position.

Cousins are informally referred to by the same terms used for siblings, but officially one has an aunt/uncle-nibling relationship with one's cousins.

Word Forms

• niblings

Synonyms for nibling

Depending on context, synonyms include nephling, niefling.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include nephew, niece, auncle, sibling-in-law, pibling, neph.

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