Word Meanings - STEPBROTHER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A brother by the marriage of one's father with the mother of another, or of one's mother with the father of another.

Related words: (words related to STEPBROTHER)

• FATHER-LASHER
  A European marine fish , allied to the sculpin; -- called also lucky proach.
• ANOTHER-GUESS
  Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• MOTHER-OF-PEARL
  The hard pearly internal layer of several kinds of shells, esp. of pearl oysters, river mussels, and the abalone shells; nacre. See Pearl.
• MOTHER'S DAY
  A day appointed for the honor and uplift of motherhood by the loving remembrance of each person of his mother through the performance of some act of kindness, visit, tribute, or letter. The founder of the day is Anna Jarvis, of Philadelphia, who
• MOTHERING
  A rural custom in England, of visiting one's parents on Midlent Sunday, -- supposed to have been originally visiting the mother church to make offerings at the high altar.
• MOTHERLESS
  Destitute of a mother; having lost a mother; as, motherless children.
• MOTHER-OF-THYME
  An aromatic plant ; -- called also wild thyme.
• FATHERLESSNESS
  The state of being without a father.
• MOTHERLINESS
  The state or quality of being motherly.
• FATHERLAND
  One's native land; the native land of one's fathers or ancestors.
• BROTHER
  brother, AS. bro; akin to OS. brothar, D. broeder, OHG. pruodar, G. bruder, Icel. bro, Sw. & Dan. broder, Goth. bro, Ir. brathair, W. brawd, pl. brodyr, Lith. brolis, Lett. brahlis, Russ. brat', Pol. & Serv. brat, OSlav. brat, L. frater,
• MOTHER-IN-LAW
  The mother of one's husband or wife.
• BROTHER GERMAN
  A brother by both the father's and mother's side, in contradistinction to a uterine brother, one by the mother only. Bouvier.
• FATHER
  OHG. fatar, G. vater, Icel. Fa Sw. & Dan. fader, OIr. athir, L. pater, Gr. pitr, perh. fr. Skr. pa protect. Papa, Paternal, Patriot, 1. One who has begotten a child, whether son or daughter; a generator; a male parent. A wise son maketh a glad
• FATHER-IN-LAW
  The father of one's husband or wife; -- correlative to son-in- law and daughter-in-law. Note: A man who marries a woman having children already, is sometimes, though erroneously, called their father-in-law.
• BROTHERLINESS
  The state or quality of being brotherly.
• MARRIAGEABILITY
  The quality or state of being marriageable.
• MOTHER-NAKED
  Naked as when born.
• MOTHERHOOD
  The state of being a mother; the character or office of a mother.
• FATHERLESS
  1. Destitute of a living father; as, a fatherless child. 2. Without a known author. Beau. & Fl.
• SMOTHER
  Etym: 1. To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to smother a child. 2. To affect as by suffocation; to stife; to deprive of air by a thick
• UNMOTHERED
  Deprived of a mother; motherless.
• GREAT-GRANDFATHER
  The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• EEL-MOTHER
  The eelpout.
• STEPMOTHER
  The wife of one's father by a subsequent marriage.
• SMOTHERINESS
  The quality or state of being smothery.
• GREAT-GRANDMOTHER
  The mother of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• GODFATHER
  A man who becomes sponsor for a child at baptism, and makes himself a surety for its Christian training and instruction. There shall be for every Male-child to be baptized, when they can be had, two Godfathers and one Godmother; and for