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stepfather
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The husband of one's biological mother, other than one's biological father, especially following the divorce or death of the father.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A stepfather or stepdad is the husband of one's biological mother, and not one's biological father.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Despite encouragement, he still couldn't call his stepfather dad. ▪ Eiman's stepfather , Douglas Grant, 50, landed in Manila yesterday, after travelling from Inverness. ▪ He's my horrible stepfather and I simply can't stick him. ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also step-father , Old English steopfæder ; see step- + father .
Usage examples of stepfather.
Petitions were already under way, which, when approved, would entitle Marga and Stephan Bronski to take the name of their stepfather Ehlers.
Snape looked as though he was trying to hide his amusement, and Harry marveled at the way he was reminding him more and more of his stepfather in his other life.
A lovemaking that had confirmed all her fears, a revelation that had de stroyed her beloved stepfather.
The deaths of her mother and stepfather had caused Suzanne Struthers to have a nervous breakdown.
Aboriginal stepfather had been called Old Chinaman and that he had indeed been a tribal elder on Corunna and had maintained this position of power until the day he died.
Furthermore Gimlet knows that what would make me the happiest corporate liability trouble shooter in the history of the planet earth would be to kill my father and that I will kill my father and bathe in his blood as soon as I can do it without maybe getting caught or found guilty at it, maybe when he is retired and my mother is weak, and Gimlet promises to help me and to kill her stepfather as well and she fellates me and lets me burn her sometimes.
At the same time, knowing that, in addition, your frivolous stepfather has squandered money which is exclusively yours, I have decided to absolve him from a certain moiety of the mortgages on his property, in order that you may be in a position to recover of him what you have lost, by suing him in legal fashion.
Her reflexions indeed at this moment thickened apace, and one of them made her sure that her governess had conversations, private, earnest and not infrequent, with her denounced stepfather.
When the counselor threw in the towel, Starks stepfather, a successful businessman who had been raised on the East Coast, had come up with an East Coast solution to the problem.
Tossa had gone there to meet him, and had expected him to have something to tell her about her stepfathers accident.
Driven by his memories of a stepfather who had brutalized his mother as Aristos brutalized their slaves, he swore nothing could appease his hatred for the Traders except their destruction.
Agonized from knowing how Darr brutalized his mother, Kurj had finally snapped and attacked his stepfather, first with his fists, then with shards of the vase.
Now, faced with the startling appearance of the bloodstained knife, Lax and the defense lawyers felt handicapped by all they did not know about the stepfather of the castrated victim.
She's admitted to conspiring with her mother to murder her stepfather, but there's still something locked away inside her that she thinks is even worse.
Her stepfather had taken to denouncing her various interests as unrealistically ambitious or occasionally as deadeningly trivial.