stepmother
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ˈstɛpmʌðə/
stepmother (plural stepmothers)
- The wife of one's biological father, other than one's biological mother.
- Synonyms: bonus mother, co-mother
- cot en
- Hypernyms: stepparent
- (botany, rare) A viola, especially Viola tricolor, heartsease.
- 1974, Thomas Teal, translating Tove Jansson, The Summer Book, Sort Of Books 2003, p. 115:
- The second came up about ten days later in the lee of the channel marker, and it was called stepmother, or love-in-idelness.
- 1974, Thomas Teal, translating Tove Jansson, The Summer Book, Sort Of Books 2003, p. 115:
- mother-in-law (dated)
Dialectal forms:
- stepma (chiefly Ireland, US regional)
- stepmam (chiefly Ireland, Northern England)
- stepmama (chiefly US regional)
- stepmamma (chiefly US regional)
- stepmom (chiefly US)
- stepmum (chiefly UK, Commonwealth)
- French: belle-mère, (pejorative) marâtre
- German: Stiefmutter, (gender-neutral) Stiefelternteil
- Italian: matrigna
- Portuguese: madrasta
- Russian: ма́чеха
- Spanish: madrastra
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