Definitions for stepchild

stepchild step·child

Spelling: [step-chahyld]
IPA: /ˈstɛpˌtʃaɪld/

Stepchild is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 534 anagrams from letters in stepchild (cdehilpst).

Definitions for stepchild

noun

  1. a child of one's spouse by a previous marriage.
  2. any person, organization, affiliate, project, etc., that is not properly treated, supported, or appreciated:

Origin of stepchild

before 1000; Middle English; Old English stēopcild. See step-, child

Examples for stepchild

Being a stepchild, she noted, set her as an outsider within a family, and gave her a yearning to conform.

Jealousy for her own infant daughter now made her hate her stepchild more and more.

Malone exempted him, he being the sole support of his stepchild.

She not only despised but hated her stepchild from the moment that she saw her.

It was a stepchild among camps, neither attractive enough to be loved nor disagreeable enough to be hated and reviled.

She had felt more shy than had Mona, about suggesting what her stepchild should call her.

You see I'm—I mean I was a stepchild 'long as father was here.

Tom Brangwen never loved his own son as he loved his stepchild Anna.

Well, all the time you and me was in Marcellus's settin'-room that stepchild of his just set and looked at my head.

And she had half-a-dozen servants; the tenor's stepchild was wheeled to the Heath now in fine apparel by a competent nurse.

Word Value for stepchild
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Words with friends

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