stepdaughter
- noun
- /ˈstɛpˌdɔtər/
- This is my stepdaughter, who just graduated from high school.
- white stepdaughter
I've got a son, a stepdaughter, and I've got another daughter on the way.
- I've got a son, a stepdaughter, and I've got another daughter on the way.
- It was an old man with rumpled hair and his stepdaughter.
- He's been banged up financing his stepdaughters and other people.
- And I just lost my stepdaughters.
- Thank you nephew subject inappropriate stepdaughter.
- You found this woman, her husband disappears and leaves like a note behind to take care of his daughter, her stepdaughter and I.
- I said she's not him, that I wanted more time for him and me, not everyone together, not me and his wife or me and his stepdaughter.
Examples
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Macaione leaves behind her husband, two children, a stepdaughter, and four grandchildren.
Blog text (8) -
With a delighted laugh, Candace rose to kiss both of her stepdaughter's cheeks.
Fiction book (1995) -
My stepdaughter is a little... upset.
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"Under no circumstances do I want my wife or stepdaughter to know anything about all this.
Fiction book (1995) -
- So I see you met my stepdaughter.
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This is my stepdaughter, Linda.
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Sunday, Mother's Day, I took my wife, stepdaughter, and the grandkids to lunch.
Blog text (11) -
I watched with alarm as my stepdaughter Eliza grew weaker each day.
Blog text (6) -
I've got a fourteen-year-old stepdaughter who I care more about than anything in the world.
Fiction book (1997) -
Six months later, my 13-year-old stepdaughter went to live with her biological father—
Fiction book (1996)
Synonyms
A child of your partner from an earlier marriage or relationship
A child of your partner from an earlier relationship
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Stepdaughter combines step and daughter. The step part was long used to show a family tie 'by marriage' rather than 'by birth', just like in stepmother and stepson, so a stepdaughter is the 'daughter' of your partner from an earlier relationship.