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stepbrother

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Word definitions for stepbrother in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a son of your stepparent by a former marriage [syn: half-brother ]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also step-brother , mid-15c., from step- + brother (n.).

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
alt. 1 The son of one's stepfather or stepmother who is not the son of one's mother and is not the son of one's father. 2 The stepson of one's father or mother who is not one's half-brother. n. 1 The son of one's stepfather or stepmother who is not the ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stepbrother \Step"broth`er\, n. A brother by the marriage of one's father with the mother of another, or of one's mother with the father of another.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Caro said her stepbrother was Robert Marsh the naturalist. ▪ His stepbrother , half-scandalized and wholly impressed by Herbert's levity, never forgot the episode. ▪ I have five and a half stepbrothers and sisters. ▪ Shari struggles ...

Usage examples of stepbrother.

Or in the reconstituted families after divorce and remarriage, the offenders had their sibling order changed because of the new stepbrothers and stepsisters.

But instead of getting weaker, it was getting stronger the Amadan was on this fare, and he was able to thrash all of his stepbrothers together.

Cilean knew that it also talked about Geralt, the stepbrother of Jura, and a Daire, that had been bred with them.

Only a year or so ago a stepbrother, who also had gone to the same English school in Shimonoseki, had been one of the team sent to buy the first hundred guns.

The lady is closely connected to a man, her stepbrother in fact, who is a trusted friend of the Duke of Suffolk and his family.

His brothers and stepbrothers were needed to help his father control Angira.

I can perhaps determine if one of my brothers or stepbrothers has survived.

Stark took in two stepbrothers hed never even met because he understood what their parents divorce was doing to them.

Nicholas was doing Perhaps after all it was no wonder that Clarissa turned so often from her husband to her stepbrother.

Morgana of the Apple Isle, Artorius the Dux Bellorum of Britain, who was Morgana's stepbrother, war with invading Irish clans .

Not that either Andy or my mom was particularly happy with me, eithernot because they knew the busted up china cabinet was my fault, but for not ratting my stepbrothers out in the first place.

I say this not as her stepbrother but as the Dux Bellorum who had to bring word of her husband's murder at the hands of Pictish bandits!

I glanced over at Tina, seeing her sandwiched between my stepbrothers, their two cocks pumping her tight holes.