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stepsibling

noun

Etymology

From step- + sibling.

  1. learned borrowing from sibling — “relative, a relation, kinsman”
  2. formed as stepsibling — “step- + sibling”

Definitions

  1. The child of one's stepparent by a previous relationship.

    • With multiple stepparents, stepsiblings, half siblings and pseudosiblings, it’s a whole new type of family[…].

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for stepsibling. 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