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stepmother
[ step-muhth-er ]
noun
- the wife, by a later marriage, of one's parent.
stepmother
/ ˈstɛpˌmʌðə /
noun
- a woman who has married one's father after the death or divorce of one's mother
Other Words From
- step·moth·er·ly adverb
- step·moth·er·li·ness noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of stepmother1
Example Sentences
Billy Porter plays the Fairy Godmother, while fairy-tale icon Idina Menzel plays the villainous stepmother.
His father was distant and chilly, and then later, there was the evil stepmother.
She’s desperate to visit her father, who is vaccinated, but is waiting to make the trip, since her stepmother isn’t vaccinated and she hasn’t gotten her own second dose.
That night, I went to meet with Kooper’s father and stepmother at their house, which sits out on the edge of town, near a small cattle farm.
My father and stepmother found me, at the very beginning of the episode, having paranoid delusions.
This was said to have created tension between his two grown daughters and their stepmother, who were known not to get along.
Her father and stepmother both beat her, and she was forced to become a maid in her own house.
On December 18, Kerri and her brother, Mike, told Piers Morgan on CNN about their grievances with their stepmother.
My stepmother knew Rabbi Kahane through her political activism in the 80's and remained close with some of his confidantes.
My relationship with Kahanism began in 2004, at the age of 10, when I moved to Israel to live with my father and stepmother.
Upon the death of his stepmother, his stepfather arranged to get him appointed to West Point.
They have only one servant; and my stepmother and sisters do the greater part of the work.
Her stepmother shed a few tears, which were half-gratification.
He knew that she must have been poor and left in want when her stepmother had died.
No doubt Fanny had often stood up for Mary with her stepmother, and now Mary herself had cut the ground from under her feet.
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