STEPDAUGHTER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stepdaughter mean? 

• STEPDAUGHTER (noun)
  The noun STEPDAUGHTER has 1 sense:

1. a daughter of your spouse by a former marriage

  Familiarity information: STEPDAUGHTER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STEPDAUGHTER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A daughter of your spouse by a former marriage

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("stepdaughter" is a kind of...):

stepchild (a child of your spouse by a former marriage)

 Context examples 

The witch fell into a passion, sprang to the window, and as she could look forth quite far into the world, she perceived her stepdaughter hurrying away with her sweetheart Roland.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

When you combine the ideas of whistles at night, the presence of a band of gipsies who are on intimate terms with this old doctor, the fact that we have every reason to believe that the doctor has an interest in preventing his stepdaughter’s marriage, the dying allusion to a band, and, finally, the fact that Miss Helen Stoner heard a metallic clang, which might have been caused by one of those metal bars that secured the shutters falling back into its place, I think that there is good ground to think that the mystery may be cleared along those lines.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The stepdaughter once had a pretty apron, which the other fancied so much that she became envious, and told her mother that she must and would have that apron.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

My stepdaughter has been here.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There was once upon a time a woman who was a real witch and had two daughters, one ugly and wicked, and this one she loved because she was her own daughter, and one beautiful and good, and this one she hated, because she was her stepdaughter.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

The mother, however, loved the ugly and lazy one best, because she was her own daughter, and so the other, who was only her stepdaughter, was made to do all the work of the house, and was quite the Cinderella of the family.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)