Noun: stepmother
| Singular | stepmother |
| Plural | stepmothers |
Sample Sentences
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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, Tove Jansson, translated by Thomas Teal, The Summer Book, Sort Of Books, published 2003, page 115:]
Nouns inflected like stepmother
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English stepmoder, from Old English stēopmōdor, from Proto-Germanic *steupamōdēr (“stepmother”), corresponding to step- + mother. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Stäifmuur (“stepmother”), Dutch stiefmoeder (“stepmother”), German Low German Steevmoder (“stepmother”), German Stiefmutter (“stepmother”), Danish stedmor (“stepmother”), Swedish styvmor (“stepmother”), Icelandic stjúpmóðir (“stepmother”). Compare also West Frisian styfmem (“stepmother”). See: Middle English Nouns '
stepmoder', Old English Nouns '
stēopmōdor', Dutch Nouns '
stiefmoeder', German Nouns '
Stiefmutter', Danish Nouns '
stedmor', Swedish Nouns '
styvmor', Icelandic Nouns '
stjúpmóðir'.