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Definition of Stepmother
1. Noun. The wife of your father by a subsequent marriage.
Definition of Stepmother
1. n. The wife of one's father by a subsequent marriage.
Definition of Stepmother
1. Noun. The wife of one's biological father, other than one's biological mother. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Stepmother
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stepmother
Literary usage of Stepmother
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Nursery (1873)
"THE LITTLE stepmother. THE little stepmother, with her blue eyes and rosy cheeks,
sat in the yard, surrounded by her pets, and busily paring some apples. ..."
2. Friends' Intelligencer by Friends Intelligencer Association (1868)
"MY stepmother. When seven years of age, I lost my mother. Bhe left four children,
of whom I was the oldest. When I was ten, our dear father left us to go tn ..."
3. Audubon, the Naturalist: A History of His Life and Time by Francis Hobart Herrick (1917)
"The naturalist, so far as is known, never received a penny in payment of bequests
made by either his father or stepmother, but the reasons for this fact ..."
4. Audubon, the Naturalist: A History of His Life and Time by Francis Hobart Herrick (1917)
"The naturalist, so far as is known, never received a penny in payment of bequests
made by either his father or stepmother, but the reasons for this fact ..."
5. Audubon, the Naturalist: A History of His Life and Time by Francis Hobart Herrick (1917)
"... with the family in France broken—Death of the naturalist's stepmother—The du
... either his father or stepmother, but the reasons for this fact were far ..."
6. Dictionary of national biography by Leslie Stephen, Sidney Lee (1893)
"... and was repaid by servance of the Lord's day by abstaining from work, the
abolition of marriage between a man and his stepmother or his brother's widow, ..."
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