Word Meanings - STEPCHILD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A bereaved child; one who has lost father or mother. 2. A son or daughter of one's wife or husband by a former marriage.

Related words: (words related to STEPCHILD)

• CHILDSHIP
  The state or relation of being a child.
• CHILDISHNESS
  The state or quality of being childish; simplicity; harmlessness; weakness of intellect.
• FATHER-LASHER
  A European marine fish , allied to the sculpin; -- called also lucky proach.
• CHILDED
  Furnished with a child.
• CHILDBIRTH
  The act of bringing forth a child; travail; labor. Jer. Taylor.
• MOTHER-OF-PEARL
  The hard pearly internal layer of several kinds of shells, esp. of pearl oysters, river mussels, and the abalone shells; nacre. See Pearl.
• FORMERLY
  In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore.
• MOTHER'S DAY
  A day appointed for the honor and uplift of motherhood by the loving remembrance of each person of his mother through the performance of some act of kindness, visit, tribute, or letter. The founder of the day is Anna Jarvis, of Philadelphia, who
• HUSBANDABLE
  Capable of being husbanded, or managed with economy. Sherwood.
• HUSBANDLESS
  Destitute of a husband. Shak.
• MOTHERING
  A rural custom in England, of visiting one's parents on Midlent Sunday, -- supposed to have been originally visiting the mother church to make offerings at the high altar.
• CHILDISH
  1. Of, pertaining to, befitting, or resembling, a child. "Childish innocence." Macaulay. 2. Peurile; trifling; weak. Methinks that simplicity in her countenance is rather childish than innocent. Addison. Note: Childish, as applied tc persons who
• CHILD STUDY
  A scientific study of children, undertaken for the purpose of discovering the laws of development of the body and the mind from birth to manhood.
• MOTHERLESS
  Destitute of a mother; having lost a mother; as, motherless children.
• MOTHER-OF-THYME
  An aromatic plant ; -- called also wild thyme.
• DAUGHTERLY
  Becoming a daughter; filial. Sir Thomas liked her natural and dear daughterly affection towards him. Cavendish.
• FATHERLESSNESS
  The state of being without a father.
• MOTHERLINESS
  The state or quality of being motherly.
• FATHERLAND
  One's native land; the native land of one's fathers or ancestors.
• CHILDCROWING
  The crowing noise made by children affected with spasm of the laryngeal muscles; false croup.
• DEFORMER
  One who deforms.
• GODCHILD
  One for whom a person becomes sponsor at baptism, and whom he promises to see educated as a Christian; a godson or goddaughter. See Godfather.
• SMOTHER
  Etym: 1. To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to smother a child. 2. To affect as by suffocation; to stife; to deprive of air by a thick
• UNMOTHERED
  Deprived of a mother; motherless.
• GREAT-GRANDFATHER
  The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• EEL-MOTHER
  The eelpout.
• STEPMOTHER
  The wife of one's father by a subsequent marriage.