单词 | born brother |
释义 | > as lemmasborn brother born brother n. a man or boy sharing at least one birth parent with another person; a brother by birth. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > sibling > brother > [noun] brotherOE born brotherOE broa1530 billy1724 buddy1834 bredda1837 bub1841 boetie1867 bruvver1867 Brer1878 bro1893 boet1920 OE Wærferð tr. Gregory Dialogues (Corpus Cambr.) (1900) iv. lvii. 344 Þam þegnode on his untrumnesse his geborena broþer [L. frater germanus]. a1250 Wohunge ure Lauerd in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 275 Borne breðre hauen me forwurpen. c1426 J. Audelay Poems (1931) 14 (MED) What was Abel þe worse, þaȝ Kayme his borne broder Were cursid? a1658 J. Durham Clavis Cantici (1668) viii. 423 A Virgin that is shewing her respect to her own born brother, needs fear no reproach from that. 1887 H. Morley Eng. Writers (ed. 2) II. ii. 25 Though his born brother..Bury him pompously. 2008 K. Kaser Patriarchy after Patriarchy i. 46 Friends become incorporated into the kinship group by calling them brothers... The ‘brother’ is differentiated from the ‘born brother’. < as lemmas |
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