stepmother
noun/ˈstɛpˌmʌðər/
Frequency rank: #11,086 most common English word
Meaning
the woman who has married one's father after the death or divorce of one's birth mother.
Example sentence
After her father remarried, she slowly learned to trust her stepmother.
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