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stepdaughter

Syllables: step·daugh·ter

stepdaughter noun: the daughter of one's spouse from a previous relationship.

Noun

stepdaughter (plural stepdaughters)

  1. The daughter of one's spouse from a previous relationship.
    • Shannon Spann had an infant, Jake, to care for and two stepdaughters to suddenly raise by herself.2013 September 8, Wayne Darsh, “A child of war, with a sense of purpose”, in CNN, archived from the original on 15 Jul 2025
    • ICE agents then took his stepdaughter in to get her prints, Edward said, and neither returned. The pair were initially transported to a Rio Grande detention facility, before being transferred to Dilley.2026 March 24, Dan Gooding, “ICE Detains Canadian Mom with 7-Year-Old Autistic Daughter”, in Newsweek, archived from the original on 24 Mar 2026

stepdaughter meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Telugu and Arabic

stepdaughter in Tamil

மாற்றாண் மகள், மாற்றாள் மகள்

stepdaughter in Bengali

daughter of one's spouse and not of oneself
সৎমেয়ে śotmeẏe

stepdaughter in Telugu

daughter of one's spouse and not of oneself
సవతికూతురు savatikūturu

stepdaughter in Arabic

daughter of one's spouse and not of oneself
رَبِيبَة rabība
More languagesFewer languages
stepdaughter in Persian
دختندر doxtandar
stepdaughter in Vietnamese
con gái riêng
Kashmiri
وۆرٕ کوٗر vorụ kūr

Forms of stepdaughter

pluralstepdaughters
alternative formstep-daughter

Plural of stepdaughter: stepdaughters

Origin of stepdaughter

From Middle English stepdoughter, stepdoghter, steopdohter, from Old English stēopdohtor (“stepdaughter”), from Proto-Germanic *steupaduhtēr (“stepdaughter”), equivalent to step- + daughter. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Stäifdochter (“stepdaughter”), West Frisian styfdochter (“stepdaughter”), Dutch stiefdochter (“stepdaughter”), German Low German Steevdochter (“stepdaughter”), German Stieftochter (“stepdaughter”), Danish steddatter (“stepdaughter”), Swedish styvdotter (“stepdaughter”), Icelandic stjúpdóttir (“stepdaughter”).

Questions about stepdaughter

What does stepdaughter mean?
Stepdaughter means the daughter of one's spouse from a previous relationship.
What is stepdaughter in Tamil?
Stepdaughter in Tamil is மாற்றாண் மகள், மாற்றாள் மகள். See Stepdaughter meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is stepdaughter?
Stepdaughter is a noun.
What is the plural of stepdaughter?
The plural of stepdaughter is stepdaughters.

Words near stepdaughter in the dictionary

  1. stepdance
  2. stepdancer
  3. stepdancers
  4. stepdances
  5. stepdancing
  6. stepdaughter
  7. stepdaughters
  8. stepdown
  9. stepdowns
  10. stepfamilies
  11. stepfamily

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: stepdaughter (page history and authors); stepdaughter (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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