Word Meanings - STEPMOTHER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The wife of one's father by a subsequent marriage.

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• FATHER-LASHER
  A European marine fish , allied to the sculpin; -- called also lucky proach.
• FATHERLESSNESS
  The state of being without a father.
• SUBSEQUENT
  1. Following in time; coming or being after something else at any time, indefinitely; as, subsequent events; subsequent ages or years; a period long subsequent to the foundation of Rome. 2. Following in order of place; succeeding; as, a subsequent
• FATHERLAND
  One's native land; the native land of one's fathers or ancestors.
• 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.
• MARRIAGEABILITY
  The quality or state of being marriageable.
• FATHERLESS
  1. Destitute of a living father; as, a fatherless child. 2. Without a known author. Beau. & Fl.
• FATHERLY
  1. Like a father in affection and care; paternal; tender; protecting; careful. You have showed a tender, fatherly regard. Shak. 2. Of or pertaining to a father.
• MARRIAGE
  1. The act of marrying, or the state of being married; legal union of a man and a woman for life, as husband and wife; wedlock; matrimony. Marriage is honorable in all. Heb. xiii. 4. 2. The marriage vow or contract. Chaucer. 3. A feast made on
• FATHER LONGLEGS
  See 2
• SUBSEQUENTLY
  At a later time; afterwards.
• FATHERLINESS
  The qualities of a father; parantal kindness, care, etc.
• MARRIAGEABLE
  Fit for, or capable of, marriage; of an age at which marriage is allowable. -- Mar"riage*a*ble*ness, n.
• FATHERHOOD
  The state of being a father; the character or authority of a father; paternity.
• FATHERSHIP
  The state of being a father; fatherhood; paternity.
• GREAT-GRANDFATHER
  The father 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
• FOREFATHER
  One who precedes another in the line of genealogy in any degree, but usually in a remote degree; an ancestor. Respecting your forefathers, you would have been taught to respect yourselves. Burke. Forefathers' Day, the anniversary of the day on
• STEPFATHER
  The husband of one's mother by a subsequent marriage.
• GRANDFATHER
  A father's or mother's father; an ancestor in the next degree above the father or mother in lineal ascent. Grandfather longlegs. See Dady longlegs.
• INTERMARRIAGE
  Connection by marriage; reciprocal marriage; giving and taking in marriage, as between two families, tribes, castes, or nations.
• UNFATHERED
  1. Having no father; fatherless; hence, born contrary to nature. Shak. 2. Having no acknowledged father; hence, illegitimate; spurious; bastard.