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step·fa·ther

(stĕp′fä′thər)
n.
A man who is a stepparent.
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stepfather

(ˈstɛpˌfɑːðə)
n
a man who has married one's mother after the death or divorce of one's father
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step•fa•ther

(ˈstɛpˌfɑ ðər)

n.
the husband of one's mother by a later marriage.
[before 900]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun 1. stepfather - the husband of your mother by a subsequent marriage
father figure, father surrogate - a man who takes over all the functions of the real father
stepparent - the spouse of your parent by a subsequent marriage
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Translations
nevlastní otec
stedfar
duonpatro
isäpuoli
očuh
mostohaapa
継父
의붓아버지
očim
styvfar
พ่อเลี้ยง
bố dượng

stepfather

[ˈstepˌfɑːðəʳ] N → padrastro m
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

stepfather

[ˈstɛpfɑːðər] n → beau-père m
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

stepfather

n → Stiefvater m
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

stepfather

[ˈstɛpˌfɑːðəʳ] n → patrigno
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

stepfather

→ زَوْجُ الأُمّ nevlastní otec stedfar Stiefvater πατριός padrastro isäpuoli beau-père očuh patrigno 継父 의붓아버지 stiefvader stefar ojczym padrasto отчим styvfar พ่อเลี้ยง üvey baba bố dượng 继父
Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009

stepfather

n padrastro
English-Spanish/Spanish-English Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.
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My mother's husband, who was the stepfather of my brother John and myself, did not belong to the same owners as did my mother.
My stepfather had already secured a job at a salt-furnace, and he had also secured a little cabin for us to live in.
"Your father," said Holmes, "your stepfather, surely, since the name is different."
"Yes, my stepfather. I call him father, though it sounds funny, too, for he is only five years and two months older than myself."
Through my stepfather's interest, the post was offered to me.
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This stepfather of ours was a cruel brute as well as a grinding one.
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"My sons, to assure you that I love you, no more need be known or said than that you are my sons; and to encourage a suspicion that I do not love you, no more is needed than the knowledge that I have no self-control as far as preservation of your patrimony is concerned; therefore, that you may for the future feel sure that I love you like a father, and have no wish to ruin you like a stepfather, I propose to do with you what I have for some time back meditated, and after mature deliberation decided upon.
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For the sake of convenience I have myself given names to the various Folk I was more closely in contact with, and the "Chatterer" is the most fitting description I can find for that precious stepfather of mine.
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"Then we all drown, Evasinha," said her stepfather. "It is impossible."
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"See how a Christian can die," he said to his wild stepson, the Earl of Warwick, who came to say farewell to his stepfather.
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"Prascovia," began the Grandmother, "is what I have just heard through a side wind true--namely, that this fool of a stepfather of yours is going to marry that silly whirligig of a Frenchwoman--that actress, or something worse?
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Forced into the uncongenial trade of his stepfather, a master-bricklayer, he soon deserted it to enlist among the English soldiers who were helping the Dutch to fight their Spanish oppressors.
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