Definition of Stepsister

1. Noun. A sister who has only one parent in common with you.

Exact synonyms: Half Sister, Half-sister
Generic synonyms: Sis, Sister

Definition of Stepsister

1. n. A daughter of one's stepfather or stepmother by a former marriage.

Definition of Stepsister

1. Noun. The daughter of one's stepfather or stepmother who is not the daughter of one's mother and is not the daughter of one's father. ¹

2. Noun. The stepdaughter of one's father or mother which is not one's half-sister. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Stepsister

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Stepsister

stepping motor
stepping motors
stepping razor
stepping stone
stepping stones
steppingstone
steppingstones
steprelationship
steps
steps back
stepsib
stepsibling
stepsiblings
stepsibs
stepsis
stepsister (current term)
stepsisters
stepsize
stepsizes
stepson
stepsons
stepstone
stepstones
stepstool
stepstools
stept
steptavidin
stepuncle
stepuncles
stepwife

Literary usage of Stepsister

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Cinderella: Three Hundred and Forty-five Variants of Cinderella, Catskin by Marian Roalfe Cox (1892)
"The envious stepsister who declines to oblige, and who chooses the best of everything, ... In the second version, the stepsister, who is very beautiful, ..."

2. Cinderella: Three Hundred and Forty-five Variants of Cinderella, Catskin by Marian Roalfe Cox (1893)
"The envious stepsister who declines to oblige, and who chooses the best of everything, ... In the second version, the stepsister, who is very beautiful, ..."

3. Publications by Folklore Society (Great Britain) (1907)
"Fair is she as the fairest sun of summer, red and white as blood on snow; stepsister is ugly and loathsome to all. More and more beautiful grows heroine for ..."

4. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1905)
"stepsister. Strictly speaking a stepbrother or stepsister is one related by ... These Issues are to each other stepbrother or stepsister, being related by ..."

5. Japan by Walter G. Dickson, Mayo Williamson Hazeltine (1898)
"He had a stepbrother, Hide nanga, and a stepsister, who married Musasi no kami, ... Another stepsister had a son, Hide toshi, who was adopted by ..."

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