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stepmother

noun
USSTEP-muth-er/ˈstɛpˌmʌðɚ/UKSTEP-muth-uh/ˈstɛpmʌðə/

Pluralstepmothers

2 meanings of stepmother

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  1. 1
    nouncountable
    The woman your father marries who is not your own mother.

    Her stepmother helped her get ready for the first day of school.

    After the wedding, his stepmother moved into their house.

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  2. 2
    nounrareuncountable
    A small garden flower, also called heartsease or wild pansy.

    She planted stepmother along the garden path in early spring.

    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, The Summer BookHere, stepmother is the name of a small wild pansy, also called heartsease.

    Similarheartsease

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Origin

From Old English steopmodor, made from step- and mother.