stepdaughter
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of stepdaughter
before 900; Middle English stepdohter, Old English stēopdohtor. See step-, daughter
Example Sentences
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Stepdaughter: If the “so much more” resembles this, then you do owe your stepmother/dad’s wife/24-year family member that apology.
From Washington Post • Nov. 12, 2021
Q. Stepdaughter resents her dad’s absence: My husband Clark and I live halfway across the country from his teenage daughter Tina.
From Slate • Feb. 4, 2019
Q. Asking Vegetarian Stepdaughter to Eat Meat: My 13-year-old stepdaughter, who has been coming over every weekend, will be moving in with us permanently as of next month.
From Slate • Jun. 11, 2014
That left only Stepdaughter Lizzie, a spinster of 32, unaccounted for.
From Time Magazine Archive
Stepdaughter then!—talking about marrying a man she's probably known about twenty-four hours and met at a bar or in a thieves' kitchen, or something of the sort!
From An Amiable Charlatan by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)
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