STEPFATHER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stepfather mean? 

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

1. the husband of your mother by a subsequent marriage

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• STEPFATHER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The husband of your mother by a subsequent marriage

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

father figure; father surrogate (a man who takes over all the functions of the real father)

stepparent (the spouse of your parent by a subsequent marriage)

 Context examples 

“Your father,” said Holmes, “your stepfather, surely, since the name is different.”

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

But a terrible change came over our stepfather about this time.

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

My stepfather has offered no opposition to the match, and we are to be married in the course of the spring.

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

Now her marriage would mean, of course, the loss of a hundred a year, so what does her stepfather do to prevent it?

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

What does her clever stepfather do then?

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

One is to a firm in the City, the other is to the young lady’s stepfather, Mr. Windibank, asking him whether he could meet us here at six o’clock to-morrow evening.

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

Well, and what happened when Mr. Windibank, your stepfather, returned to France?

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

You must confine yourself to your room, on pretence of a headache, when your stepfather comes back.

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

“This is the girl’s stepfather, Mr. James Windibank,” said Holmes. “He has written to me to say that he would be here at six. Come in!”

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

The metallic clang heard by Miss Stoner was obviously caused by her stepfather hastily closing the door of his safe upon its terrible occupant.

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