Stepmother
['stepmʌðə] or ['stɛpmʌðɚ]
Definition
(n.) The wife of one's father by a subsequent marriage.
Checker: Rudolph
Examples
- Mr. Rucastle told me in private that the reason why she had left them was that she had an unreasoning aversion to her stepmother. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Reflect upon this proposition; and decide whether you would prefer educating your niece yourself to her being brought up by a stepmother. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
Checked by Douglas