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/ˈstɛpmʌðə/ · noun
A woman who is a subsequent wife or partner of a person's parent, usually following the divorce or separation of their parents, or the death of one's biological mother..
The second came up about ten days later in the lee of the channel marker, and it was called stepmother, or love-in-idelness.
Use step mother when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Step mother means A woman who is a subsequent wife or partner of a person's parent, usually following the divorce or separation of their parents, or the death of one's biological mother..
Common synonyms include mother-in-law, stepdame, stepma, stepmam.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The second came up about ten days later in the lee of the channel marker, and it was called stepmother, or love-in-idelness.
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