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stepson

[ step-suhn ]

noun

  1. a son of one's husband or wife by a previous marriage.


stepson

/ ˈstɛpˌsʌn /

noun

  1. a son of one's husband or wife by a former union


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Word History and Origins

Origin of stepson1

before 900; Middle English stepsone, Old English stēopsunu. See step-, son

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Example Sentences

Being retired has made me the convenient child minder to my 14-year-old stepson, housewife, and all my dreams and goals have, well, in a nutshell, gone to hell.

I’m a woman married to a woman and have a stepson, and I want to backpack the Appalachian or PCT alone, but am not getting any support.

Then, in July 2019, he went golfing with his stepson Tyler Schmidt.

His stepson Allan Osborn, now on the cusp of adolescence, frequently bore the brunt of his wrath.

He never expected that his own stepson would be among them — a second generation from the same household deployed to the Middle East.

In a teary and emotional testimony, Rooney revealed that he had been abused by his stepson.

Charlotte marries Mr. Verver, and renews her affair with Amerigo (now her stepson-in-law).

A stepson says, “She told me every day she hated going to work.”

“She said that was really the closest to the truth,” the stepson told The Daily Beast.

Her stepson says she recently suffered several strokes and is partially paralyzed.

A pupil wrote:—Short steps … stepson … real son … more a son … Morrison.

Marius's was the body they had borne to Condillac—those men in the livery of her stepson.

She was poor and her husband not very rich, and then Tomaso was not his son, but a stepson: he could not obtain money from them.

There is no doubt that Nelson's life was saved by the careful attentions of his stepson, Nisbet, who was with him in the boat.

Probably it was with a view to ousting this rival that Leicester brought his stepson Essex into the queen's notice.

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