Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A spouse's daughter by a previous union.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A daughter of one's husband or wife by a former marriage.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A daughter of one's wife or husband by a former marriage.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
daughter of one'sspouse and not of one's self.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a daughter of your spouse by a former marriage
Etymologies
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Examples
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They bring him back into contact with the child he adored, a short-term stepdaughter from a misbegotten marriage long ago.
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Eleanor, my stepdaughter, is inbetween flats (leaving her sandwich year in London, and about to start her final year business studies degree in Nottingham).
Humour Maxine 2009
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KING: Now, you call your stepdaughter Janet, but that's not the name she uses, right?
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"Everyone called the stepdaughter Cinderella now since she sat by the cinders to keep warm as she worked hard, dressed only in rags."
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Fuller's cell phone records also indicated that five minutes after he called his stepdaughter, her boyfriend called North Las Vegas police to report his car stolen.
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The main character’s stepdaughter is a terrific character, helpful, resourceful and subtly manipulative, and she is the focus of attention when she steps in to fill the void after a series of unfortunate events puts the dinner service on hold.
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“Everyone called the stepdaughter Cinderella now since she sat by the cinders to keep warm as she worked hard, dressed only in rags.”
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“Everyone called the stepdaughter Cinderella now since she sat by the cinders to keep warm as she worked hard, dressed only in rags.”
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Greg Brown twice remarried, most recently in 2002 to sweet-sounding songbird Iris DeMent, who naturally is a fan of Pieta's, calling her stepdaughter "the best poet I've heard in a long damn time."
Michael Bialas: Sweet Pieta Brown Gives Grand Performance for Grandmother 2010
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I was better this time, being able to actually focus on what I was doing; the stepdaughter was almost out of questions.
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