stepfather – English noun declension

English noun forms of stepfather

Noun: stepfather
Singularstepfather
Pluralstepfathers

Sample Sentences

  • My stepfather loved me as much as he loved his own three sons. I knew how much he wanted to help me and how lacking in financial resources he was. Nothing could erase the image I gained of my real father that day: a carefree, well-to-do man who didn't really give a damn about the hopes and dreams of his firstborn son. [1980, Gerald Ford, “Boyhood—and Beyond”, in A Time to Heal, New York: Berkley Books, →ISBN, page 47:]
  • In suboptimal cases the gynaecologist takes sperm from anonymous donors. In this case the husband can only be stepfather of the child. [2015, Werner A. Mueller, Monika Hassel, Maura Grealy, Development and Reproduction in Humans and Animal Model Species, Springer, →ISBN, page 188, column 2:]
  • Telegony or Inheritance from the Stepfather
  • The earliest reference to telegony ( which has no connection with the son of Odysseus ) is supposed to be in 1665 but the classical case is that described in the Philosophical Transactions of[…] [1953, Cyril Dean Darlington, The Facts of Life, page 433:]

Etymology

1. From Middle English stepfader, from Old English stēopfæder, from Proto-Germanic *steupafadēr (“stepfather”), equivalent to step- + father.
2. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Stäiffoar (“stepfather”), Dutch stiefvader (“stepfather”), German Low German Steevvader (“stepfather”), German Stiefvater (“stepfather”), Swedish styvfar (“stepfather”), Icelandic stjúpfaðir (“stepfather”). See: Middle English Nouns 'stepfader', Old English Nouns 'stēopfæder', Dutch Nouns 'stiefvader', German Nouns 'Stiefvater', Swedish Nouns 'styvfar', Icelandic Nouns 'stjúpfaðir'.

Verbs referencing "stepfather"

German Nouns Stiefvater.