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# stepfather

«stepfather» in Mova's school dictionary: **a man who is married to your mother but is not your birth…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a stepfather, stepfathers)

### meaning for a pupil

A stepfather is a man who is married to your mother but is not your birth father. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stepfather/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In lessons about families, pupils learn that families come in many shapes: some children have a stepfather, a stepmother, stepbrothers and stepsisters after a parent marries again. A stepfather can be a loving parent. In fairy tales step-parents are sometimes cruel, but in real life that is a story trope, not the truth. Phrases: «my stepfather», «stepdad» (informal).

### examples

- My stepfather takes me to football practice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stepfather/#x1)
- Her mum married again, so she has a stepfather now. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stepfather/#x2)
- I call my stepfather by his first name. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stepfather/#x3)
- My stepdad makes the best pancakes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stepfather/#x4)
- He has a father and a stepfather who both love him. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stepfather/#x5)
- Tom's stepfather came to the school play. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stepfather/#x6)
- A stepfather is part of a blended family. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stepfather/#x7)
- The young prince was thankful that his stepfather was going to the war, and secretly hoped he might never come back. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stepfather/#x8)

### note

Plural: stepfathers. Informal: stepdad. Related: stepmother, stepson, stepdaughter, stepbrother, stepsister. A stepbrother is not a «half-brother»: a half-brother shares one birth parent with you, a stepbrother shares none. Myth: stepfathers are wicked — that comes from fairy tales.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «stepfather» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stepfather/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.