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# stepparent

«stepparent» in Mova's school dictionary: **the person who is married to your mother or father but is…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a stepparent, stepparents; also step-parent)

### meaning for a pupil

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

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life and stories about families: many children live with a stepparent after a parent remarries. Fairy tales often show a wicked stepmother, but most real stepparents are caring. Related words: stepmother, stepfather, stepbrother, stepsister, stepchild, blended family.

### examples

- My stepparent, Mark, helps me with my maths homework. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stepparent/#x1)
- When Mum married Dave, he became my stepparent. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stepparent/#x2)
- Lots of kids in my class have a stepparent. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stepparent/#x3)
- A stepparent can love a child just like a birth parent. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stepparent/#x4)
- Cinderella's stepparent was very cruel to her. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stepparent/#x5)
- Both my stepparents came to sports day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stepparent/#x6)

### note

Written «stepparent» (US) or «step-parent» (UK). A stepmother or stepfather is a stepparent; their children from before are your stepbrothers or stepsisters. A «half-brother» shares one birth parent with you — different from a stepbrother, who shares none.

### In the corpora

- ["Blended family" means a family with a stepparent and stepchildren.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/13-relations-and-family/5/)
- [New stepparents take time; feeling angry at first is normal, and doing small things together can help people get on.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/12-parents-shouting-parents-splitting-it-s-not-your-fault/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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