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STEPFATHER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The husband of your mother by a subsequent marriage
Classified under:
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:
If we were to come to Stoke Moran to-day, would it be possible for us to see over these rooms without the knowledge of your stepfather?
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I rushed out, calling loudly for my stepfather, and I met him hastening from his room in his dressing-gown.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
My stepfather’s business papers.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
You are screening your stepfather.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
My name is Helen Stoner, and I am living with my stepfather, who is the last survivor of one of the oldest Saxon families in England, the Roylotts of Stoke Moran, on the western border of Surrey.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Yes, my stepfather.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
However that may be, the young lady was very decidedly carried away, and, having quite made up her mind that her stepfather was in France, the suspicion of treachery never for an instant entered her mind.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Well, of course it was obvious from the first that this Mr. Hosmer Angel must have some strong object for his curious conduct, and it was equally clear that the only man who really profited by the incident, as far as we could see, was the stepfather.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
My stepfather learned of the engagement when my sister returned and offered no objection to the marriage; but within a fortnight of the day which had been fixed for the wedding, the terrible event occurred which has deprived me of my only companion.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Violence of temper approaching to mania has been hereditary in the men of the family, and in my stepfather’s case it had, I believe, been intensified by his long residence in the tropics.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
