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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's biological father, especially following the divorce 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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step- +‎ father

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