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STEPPARENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stepparent mean? 

STEPPARENT (noun)
  The noun STEPPARENT has 1 sense:

1. the spouse of your parent by a subsequent marriageplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


STEPPARENT (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The spouse of your parent by a subsequent marriage

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

parent (a father or mother; one who begets or one who gives birth to or nurtures and raises a child; a relative who plays the role of guardian)

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

stepfather (the husband of your mother by a subsequent marriage)

stepmother (the wife of your father by a subsequent marriage)


 Context examples 


The opposite house on the horoscope wheel rules your other relatives—in-laws, stepparents, and stepsiblings, for example.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)



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