Thesaurus results for STEPMOTHER

stepmother

noun

Definition of stepmother

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a woman that your father marries after his marriage to or relationship with your mother has ended

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Recent Examples of stepmother After her father and stepmother were murdered by a hatchet-wielding killer in their Fall River, Massachusetts, home in 1892, suspicion eventually turned to Lizzie. — Elisabeth Garber-Paul, Rolling Stone, 23 Sep. 2026 Under the restrictions ordered by the court, Sabatino is only allowed to contact his attorney and one member of his family, his stepmother. — Jim Defede, CBS News, 21 Sep. 2026 Alix Earle’s stepmother opened up about the choices that once made her tabloid fodder, including her connection to the Eliot Spitzer prostitution scandal and her affair with the influencer’s married father. — Lauryn Overhultz, FOXNews.com, 20 Sep. 2026 In the Rockwell wing, Leonardo DiCaprio lingered over each painting alongside his girlfriend, Vittoria Ceretti, father, George DiCaprio, and stepmother, Peggy Ann Farrar. — Paul Chi, Vogue, 20 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for stepmother

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Noun

That would be like my daughter’s mom not having me around and having to do it alone.

— Marlow Stern, Variety, 30 Sep. 2026
Continue reading … HOPE RENEWED — Savannah Guthrie's mom still missing as chilling tip rattles cold case.

— , FOXNews.com, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of mom

Noun

The driver and bus matron apparently bypassed the daycare location and mistakenly dropped Ka'Mylah somewhere in between, and the child navigated her way home on her own.

— Carolyn Gusoff, CBS News, 14 Sep. 2026
An extremely unattractive teenage girl who resembled a forty-year-old matron in a women’s prison rather than a young woman fresh on the road to self-discovery approached me.

— Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of matron

Noun

Some at the memorial took solace in seeing so many like-minded devotees come out to the serene mountain setting to remember the avian matriarch.

— Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2026
McGuane extends care to the ignored and the abhorrent—Peggy, the matriarch, fails at protecting her daughter not once but twice, with lifelong consequences the family all but ignores.

— Ryan Chapman, Literary Hub, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of matriarch

Noun

Hall’s recipe uses a classic combination of stone-ground grits, milk, water, and salt, but the Nashville native’s cooking technique may be different than the one your mama taught you.

— Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 23 Sep. 2026
But with Earle coming into the ring with fighting words, who says a mama bear can’t bite back?

— Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2026

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