stepmother

noun/ˈstɛpˌmʌðər/

Frequency rank: #11,086 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)

Meaning

the woman who has married one's father after the death or divorce of one's birth mother.

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Example sentence

After her father remarried, she slowly learned to trust her stepmother.

Synonyms & related words

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