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Half brother   /hæf brˈəðər/   Listen
Half brother

noun
1.
A brother who has only one parent in common with you.  Synonyms: half-brother, stepbrother.





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"Half brother" Quotes from Famous Books



... county and the place I was born is just across the line in San Jacinto County now. Jim and Janey Davenport was my father and mother and they come from Richmond, Virginia. I had two sisters, Betty and Harriet, and a half brother, William. ...
— Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves - Texas Narratives, Part 1 • Works Projects Administration
... and in all its snows. Years have so little affected him, that he is regarded as a better life than his son Ibrahim—his general, and confessedly a man of ability. But his second son, Said Pasha, the half brother of Ibrahim, is regarded as especially inheriting the talents of his father. He is an accomplished man, speaks English and French fluently, seems to enter into his father's views with great intelligence, and exhibits a manliness and ardour of ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 • Various


Words linked to "Half brother" :   blood brother, brother


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