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Plural of stepmother

regular plural

The plural of stepmother is stepmothers.

Forms of stepmother

Singularstepmother /ˈstɛpmʌðə/
Pluralstepmothers
Countablecountable

Stepmothers in a sentence

  • The boy was in desperate need of help due to a most irrational fear of stepmothers, also known as novercaphobia.2013, Gitty Daneshvari, School of Fear: The Final Exam, →ISBN. From the entry novercaphobia
  • Unless your name is Snow White, waiting around for Prince (or Princess) Charming to save you from wicked stepmothers and fat seatmates is a lousy strategy.2012 March 15, Philip Galanes, “Silence Doesn’t Fly Here”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN…. From the entry Princess Charming

Meaning of stepmother

  1. noun A person or thing likened to a stereotypical stepmother, having cold, cruel, or ungenerous qualities.
  2. noun An animal, typically a bird, who raises the offspring of another animal.
  3. noun Synonym of co-mother (“the non-birth mother of a child in a lesbian couple”).

Full definition of stepmother

Questions about the plural of stepmother

What is the plural of stepmother?
The plural of stepmother is stepmothers.
Is stepmother countable?
Stepmother is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stepmother (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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