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STEPCHILD (stepchildren)
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Irregular inflected form: stepchildren
Dictionary entry overview: What does stepchild mean?
• STEPCHILD (noun)
The noun STEPCHILD has 1 sense:
1. a child of your spouse by a former marriage
Familiarity information: STEPCHILD used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A child of your spouse by a former marriage
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("stepchild" is a kind of...):
child; kid (a human offspring (son or daughter) of any age)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "stepchild"):
stepdaughter (a daughter of your spouse by a former marriage)
stepson (the son your spouse by a former marriage)
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