Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A man who is a stepparent.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A man who is the husband of one's mother, but is not one's father.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The husband of one's mother by a subsequent marriage.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The husband of one's
biological mother , other than one'sbiological father , especially following thedivorce or death of the father.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the husband of your mother by a subsequent marriage
Etymologies
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Examples
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She said Cito that's what she called her stepfather, but I expect you know that already, don't you?
In the Presence of the Enemy George, Elizabeth 1996
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Luke's stepfather is an ex-footballer who doesn't have much time for his son's artistic tendencies, so there's conflict at home, too.
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No problem … his stepfather is well positioned to fix him up through Indonesian banks with funds to replace the money Qaddafi is no longer going to pay.
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Plante's stepfather is Bill Plante, the esteemed CBS correspondent and anchor.
Conservatively speaking, WMAL radio host Chris Plante is on the rise Paul Farhi 2010
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Her stepfather is Viscount Astor and she is a direct descendant of Nell Gywn, mistress to Charles II.
Archive 2008-03-01 Not a sheep 2008
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I wish that I could go back in time, adopt Heidi Klum as a child, and then raise her to think that having sex with your stepfather is how things are supposed to be.
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It's lunchtime for Timmy Armstrong and his stepfather is cutting up prepared venison for the little boy.
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Two days later, still not wanting to "make a big deal," she called her stepfather, a doctor, at his office and told him of escalating head pain and nausea.
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Rylander's stepfather is Beaumont police officer James Martin.
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A British study found children are up to 33 times more likely to be abused when a live-in boyfriend or stepfather is present than in an intact family.
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