stepsister
Americannoun
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stepsisters
plural
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of stepsister
late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50; see origin at step-, sister
Example Sentences
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Dealing with my mother and my stepsister is exhausting and causes me a lot of anxiety.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 13, 2026
I didn’t choose “Cinderella,” or the stepsister, the story of “Cinderella” through the stepsister chose me.
From Salon ● Apr. 18, 2025
And all the dreamier if they put that team in her town — and not that stepsister city across the river.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2025
Baena's surviving family includes his mother Barbara Stern and stepfather Roger Stern; father Scott and stepmother Michele Baena; brother Brad Baena; stepsister Bianca Gabay and stepbrother Jed Fluxman.
From BBC ● Jan. 7, 2025
That’s when Sam explained that they were actually stepsister and stepbrother since Patrick’s dad married Sam’s mom.
From "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" by Stephen Chbosky
They were stepsisters who hadn’t seen each other since they were little girls.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026
Despite the family's efforts to protect them, her younger stepsisters found out that their father and mother were trapped under the rubble from other children at school.
From BBC ● Apr. 9, 2025
She also defends his humanity to Louis’s nasty daughters, who make the evil stepsisters in Disney’s “Cinderella” seem understated.
From New York Times ● May 2, 2024
It can be an ordeal, watching directors force Shakespearean rethinks into contemporary settings, the way Cinderella’s stepsisters try to cram their feet into an ill-fitting slipper.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 17, 2022
As her new stepsisters climbed out of the carriage, Ana, who was twelve — “just your age; she will make a wonderful playmate for you,” her father had written hopefully — complained of hunger.
From "Ash" by Malinda Lo
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