noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a baby son/daughter/brother/sister
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We’d like a baby brother or sister for Ben.
blood brother
elder brother/son/sister/daughter etc
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His elder son Liam became a lawyer.
eldest son/daughter/brother/child etc
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My eldest daughter is 17.
long-lost brother/cousin/friend etc
sb’s little brother/sister (= a younger brother or sister who is still a child )
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Her little brother and sister were fighting again.
twin sister/brother
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Meet my twin sister.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
big
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I reckon most little boys believe that their favourite big brother can conquer the world and can do no wrong.
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First time my big brother comes to visit me in how many years has it been now?
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Vincente caddied for him for a while but it was an awkward role for a big brother .
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B got serious about basketball early, a first grader watching her big brother play and her father coach.
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My big brother Carl became the most utterly-spoiled and pampered child of all.
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Ginny, her dad was abusive, and her big brother used to beat her up.
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They will continue to decline in numbers and mergers with their big brothers are on the cards.
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The box costs £8,000 and runs the same multiprotocol routing software as its big brothers .
elder
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Also present were Bracy Clark and his elder brother , Henry.
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Paralysed as he was, his elder brother Edwin could never father a child.
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Back in the village he is the patriarch, since his father and elder brother are dead.
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Many were also referred by elder brothers and sisters or friends who had already been placed.
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The choice fell on Lord Gorell, the son of an eminent judge who had inherited his title from his elder brother .
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This was because of his elder brother Frank, whose academic career was already starred.
eldest
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My eldest brother , Joe, used to take correspondence courses, so one lived in an environment of self-improvement.
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Her eldest brother thought of nothing but the day when he'd have the farm and be able to marry his sweetheart.
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Do you remember Will, my eldest brother ?
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At the end of a year Gabriel went to visit the eldest brother .
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She says they once belonged to her eldest brother .
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It was her third eldest brother John of Cawdor who entered.
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He renounced his apprenticeship in 1858 and resolved to follow his eldest brother into the ranks of the Geological Survey.
little
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On that occasion it was my little brother Jerry who shone.
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Her little brother sobbed, and all of them looked sadly at Bill.
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His little , chesty brother had made it.
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She is also mean to my little brother .
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When Kylie was two, little brother Brendan was born, and a year later Danielle completed the Minogue family.
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It was Tess who worried and worked and felt responsible for her little brothers and sisters.
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Brian's my little brother , did I tell you?
old
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Soon Carolyn was the favourite story reader, both with Sylvia and her older brother Robin.
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When the woman marries the older brother , younger brother is heartbroken.
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My older brother got all these O- levels.
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He said that he was barely on speaking terms with his older brother and sister, though they lived at home.
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Besides, he was with his older brother .
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Her parents and 9-year-\#old brother were in the house at the time.
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I had an older brother who had and still has a great collection of 45s, but we were actually swimmers.
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Charles Horton Cooley as a friend or older brother .
twin
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My twin brother appeared by the age of about ten to have some hearing loss.
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These twin brothers were Giants, but they did not look like the monsters of old.
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I have a twin brother and it seemed that he was allowed to do all the things I wasn't.
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Some may find him placing far too much emphasis on the impact of his alcoholic parents and stillborn twin brother , Jesse.
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He gave his name as Robin Ganguly, his twin brother .
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He has a twin brother named Arthur, who is also 126 at the university here.
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Here he is aged 15 with twin brother Mark, who's a normal size.
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Both his parents and his younger twin brothers died several years ago.
young
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His one younger brother works in the furniture business.
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Worse, it suggests that his questioners had confused him with his younger brother , Alfredo.
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His younger brother would say a verse and then they'd put it together.
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He has a younger brother , Bobby Mariucci, who lives in Stockton.
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Within a month she married Johnny Hesketh, the younger brother of Lord Hesketh.
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He is the son of Sir Charles Baskerville's younger brother , who died some years ago.
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Edward M.. Kennedy, the younger brother of the slain president, would be his 1972 rival.
■ NOUN
baby
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Alan came home as a Little Lord Fauntleroy, and we had a new baby brother , Geoff.
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She was responsible for raising her baby brother Aaron.
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When he pinches his baby brother he seems indifferent to the infant's distress.
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I slept in the same room as my baby brother .
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Edward seemed quite grown up, quiet and interesting - and very good-looking instead of pretty like his baby brother !
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What would have happened to me if she had died, leaving a baby brother ?
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My baby brother was on top of the refrigerator on a bed of clean nappies and towels in his plastic baby bath-tub.
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Since the birth of her baby brother she had turned really nasty.
half
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Celie is fourteen years old, she has one sister, Nettie and numerous half brothers and sisters.
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The president's half brother and one of his sons sued the government for trampling on their civil rights!
■ VERB
kill
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Carly suffers from an immune system deficiency which killed her 14-month-old brother Greig four days before she was born.
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Eaglets often kill their younger brothers and sisters in the nest.
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She'd already virtually accused him of killing her brother .
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Brother killed brother in the Civil War.
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Would he have killed my brother ?
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Erik claimed his father threatened to kill him and his brother to stop Lyle from exposing him as a child molester.
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Then, with the Frankish king out of the way, he besieged and killed his brother in the city of Vienne.
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Some one killed my brother with a car.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
big sister/brother
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Sit up like a big girl and eat your dinner.
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B got serious about basketball early, a first grader watching her big brother play and her father coach.
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He was my big brother and now he's dead.
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I say bigger brother, but the 880 is only really comparable with the 990 for resolution and performance.
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Soon after that I saw her big sister Barbie in Mrs Marriot's.
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Spider was a big brother, a mentor, a guidance counselor that put the whole world in his hands.
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Stewart was deeply moved to be back in the compelling presence of his big brother after five years.
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The box costs £8,000 and runs the same multiprotocol routing software as its big brothers.
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They will continue to decline in numbers and mergers with their big brothers are on the cards.
foster brother/sister
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Her foster brother's misinformation must be dispelled, but what did she say?
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I shan't be able to treat you now as if you were my foster sister, Jenny.
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She knew her foster brother was unreliable.
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The two play New York subway cops who also are foster brothers.
kid sister/brother
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He has a kid sister in the fourth grade at school.
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I suddenly realized Bobby was more than just an annoying kid brother who always wanted to use my stuff.
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And Terry was her kid brother.
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During their youth Jane was more likely to put her weight and invective behind brother Charles than her kid sister.
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He told me he asked his 4-year-old kid sister the same questions.
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I met his kid brother Ed, the flight nurse, back in Beckley, West Virginia, their hometown.
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Most of them were older than I was, and I was like a kid brother, always hanging around.
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Rule two, stop pretending you got engaged to my kid brother for anything but his money.
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Still the kid sister to him, she thought dismally.
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You may have heard of his kid brother.
middle brother/child/daughter etc
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My middle daughter was like that, tall and slim and you could hardly tell.
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My older brother played Elvis music at his wedding, and my middle brother and I rolled our eyes.
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Now, for the middle child.
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Richard Nixon: A middle child who became known for diplomacy in foreign affairs, among other things.
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The wronged self Peter is the middle child of five.
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They may send the middle children to Jessy's parents in an attempt to get the eldest through secondary school.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I have two brothers, James and Karl.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He came to the defense of his younger brother , Von, by swinging a chain at his attacker.
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He was friend, father, brother , neighbor, lover.
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His decision to send her away from her home and brother into an alien world was interpreted as rejection.
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It was not until March in 1782 that the brothers made the error that was the beginning of their undoing.
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My brother hangs out with people who beat people up as like a job.
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Personally, I don't believe the allegations which are being made against him and his brother .
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She remembers that people told them they looked alike, and they joked that they were brother and sister.