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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
stepdaughter
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Her stepdaughter was only twelve, still a child, and a child who had had a hard time.
▪ His stepdaughter also left - ostensibly for school.
▪ She was filled with compassion for her stepdaughter.
▪ The stepdaughter, now 21, bore him a child at 16 as a result of being raped.
▪ The stepdaughters ask for various expensive things.
▪ The 53-year-old railway worker abused his stepdaughter and two step-granddaughters in a 12-year reign of terror.
▪ The dining room was indeed where she did find her stepdaughter.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stepdaughter

Stepdaughter \Step"daugh`ter\, n. [AS. ste['o]pdohtor.] A daughter of one's wife or husband by a former marriage.

Wiktionary
stepdaughter

n. The daughter of one's spouse and not of one's self.

WordNet
stepdaughter

n. a daughter of your spouse by a former marriage

Usage examples of "stepdaughter".

Rosemary West also took pornographic photographs of her stepdaughter with a Polaroid camera, and hit her repeatedly, although always taking care to make sure that the bruises did not show.

The putrid discharge flowed out of her with sluggish remorselessness, and she burned with a fever no amount of medicine or care seemed to cool: She was still conscious, however, and her eyes, bright as two flames, were fixed on her stepdaughter painfully.

Bonaparte wished to give his stepdaughter to Duroc, and his brothers were eager to promote the marriage, because they wished to separate Josephine from Hortense, for whom Bonaparte felt the tenderest affection.

Although Luciella would never have touched one of the verrin hawks, and the thought that her stepdaughter would wish to do so had never entered her mind.

Only recently, for instance, it came to my ears that he actually persuaded Marcus Aurelius Cotta to allow his stepdaughter, Aurelia, to choose her own husband.

Adina Waddington was her companions stepdaughter, the elder lady having, some eight years before, married a widower with a little girl.

Oswald, Oscar L Crease, a historian and playwright well that should please him, who resides on Long Island, and a stepdaughter, Christina Lutz, of Manhattan and Lily, get the phone if it rings before he does, it might be the newspapers or God knows who and put this out of sight somewhere will you?

And suddenly a lot of women who had followed the false Queen Albruna's lead in their comments and manner to her stepdaughter wanted to do a bit of flattery really, really badly.

The best that his optimistic stepdaughter could hope for seemed to be salmonella contamination of the undercooked egg yolks.

Now, we're looking for anything that sheds light on Philip Hawkin's relationship with his stepdaughter.

The possibility of their ever having been my stepdaughters was a matter of mere speculation.

He wept for all the Marvin Curtisses with stepdaughters who would never play their cellos to a public audience now.

The schoolmistress was a gray-haired widow, fifty or more, who had outlasted two husbands, and was coping sensibly with her meager chance of finding a third, preferring to support herself rather than live with one of her daughters, stepdaughters, or daughters-in-law.