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STEPCHILD (stepchildren)

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stepchild mean? 

STEPCHILD (noun)
  The noun STEPCHILD has 1 sense:

1. a child of your spouse by a former marriageplay

  Familiarity information: STEPCHILD used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


STEPCHILD (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A child of your spouse by a former marriage

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("stepchild" is a kind of...):

child; kid (a human offspring (son or daughter) of any age)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "stepchild"):

stepdaughter (a daughter of your spouse by a former marriage)

stepson (the son your spouse by a former marriage)


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