0 the woman who is married to someone's father but who is not their real mother --
1 a woman who is married to the father of a child but is not the biological mother --
I thought he was saying that in the case of a stepmother she should have equal rights with the true father of the children.
My late father and my stepmother were responsible for setting up this charity.
Lincoln, though, never adopted his father and stepmother's beliefs.
Against this, their stepmother argued that the will did not include any conditions of the sort the daughters referred to and that it was formally correct.
The kinship nouns father-in-law, niece, sisterin-law, stepfather, stepmother, and stepsister are actually very infrequent, as is the body-part term milk tooth.
In a quarter of families a step-parent was present, usually a stepmother.
The tale also associates domestic discord and greed with women, from the stepmother (another interfering second wife) to the eldest sister ghost.
She could not get on with her stepmother and was not welcome in her father's house.
