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Definition of Stepsister
1. Noun. A sister who has only one parent in common with you.
Definition of Stepsister
1. n. A daughter of one's stepfather or stepmother by a former marriage.
Definition of Stepsister
1. Noun. The daughter of one's stepfather or stepmother who is not the daughter of one's mother and is not the daughter of one's father. ¹
2. Noun. The stepdaughter of one's father or mother which is not one's half-sister. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Stepsister
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stepsister
Literary usage of Stepsister
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cinderella: Three Hundred and Forty-five Variants of Cinderella, Catskin by Marian Roalfe Cox (1892)
"The envious stepsister who declines to oblige, and who chooses the best of everything,
... In the second version, the stepsister, who is very beautiful, ..."
2. Cinderella: Three Hundred and Forty-five Variants of Cinderella, Catskin by Marian Roalfe Cox (1893)
"The envious stepsister who declines to oblige, and who chooses the best of everything,
... In the second version, the stepsister, who is very beautiful, ..."
3. Publications by Folklore Society (Great Britain) (1907)
"Fair is she as the fairest sun of summer, red and white as blood on snow; stepsister
is ugly and loathsome to all. More and more beautiful grows heroine for ..."
4. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1905)
"stepsister. Strictly speaking a stepbrother or stepsister is one related by ...
These Issues are to each other stepbrother or stepsister, being related by ..."
5. Japan by Walter G. Dickson, Mayo Williamson Hazeltine (1898)
"He had a stepbrother, Hide nanga, and a stepsister, who married Musasi no kami,
... Another stepsister had a son, Hide toshi, who was adopted by ..."