Definitions

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  • proper noun A surname.
  • proper noun A place name.
  • adjective Docile, unthinking and conformist.
  • adjective Attractive but lacking any character.

Etymologies

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A fictional place name. After the fictional suburb in the 1972 novel The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin, and in two films of the same name based on the novel.

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