stepfamily
nounEtymology
From step- + family.
Definitions
Any family having one or more stepchildren or stepparents.
- Researchers are finding that the incidence of violence and abuse is vastly greater in stepfamilies than in traditional families in which the children are biologically related to both parents and to one other.
- Meanwhile, thanks to the huge number of second marriages, a third of all Americans are part of a stepfamily.
The family of one's stepfather or stepmother
The family of one's stepfather or stepmother; those immediate family members not related by blood.
The neighborhood
- neighborsteprelative
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for stepfamily. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA