Word Meanings - STEPSISTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A daughter of one's stepfather or stepmother by a former marriage.

Related words: (words related to STEPSISTER)

• FORMERLY
  In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore.
• STEPMOTHER
  The wife of one's father by a subsequent marriage.
• DAUGHTERLY
  Becoming a daughter; filial. Sir Thomas liked her natural and dear daughterly affection towards him. Cavendish.
• DAUGHTERLINESS
  The state of a daughter, or the conduct becoming a daughter.
• MARRIAGEABILITY
  The quality or state of being marriageable.
• STEPFATHER
  The husband of one's mother by a subsequent marriage.
• DAUGHTER
  doughter, doghter, dohter, AS. dohtor, dohter; akin to OS. dohtar, D. dochter, G. tochter, Icel. d, Sw. dotter, Dan. dotter, datter, Goth. daúhtar,, OSlav. d, Russ. doche, Lith. dukt, Gr. , Zendughdhar, Skr. duhit; possibly originally, the milker,
• MARRIAGE
  1. The act of marrying, or the state of being married; legal union of a man and a woman for life, as husband and wife; wedlock; matrimony. Marriage is honorable in all. Heb. xiii. 4. 2. The marriage vow or contract. Chaucer. 3. A feast made on
• FORMER
  1. One who forms; a maker; a creator. A shape around which an article is to be shaped, molded, woven wrapped, pasted, or otherwise constructed. A templet, pattern, or gauge by which an article is shaped. A cutting die.
• MARRIAGEABLE
  Fit for, or capable of, marriage; of an age at which marriage is allowable. -- Mar"riage*a*ble*ness, n.
• FORMERET
  One of the half ribs against the walls in a ceiling vaulted with ribs.
• DAUGHTER-IN-LAW
  The wife of one's son.
• DEFORMER
  One who deforms.
• STEPDAUGHTER
  A daughter of one's wife or husband by a former marriage.
• MISINFORMER
  One who gives or incorrect information.
• INFORMER
  One who informs a magistrate of violations of law; one who informs against another for violation of some law or penal statute. Common informer , one who habitually gives information of the violation of penal statutes, with a view to a prosecution
• GREAT-GRANDDAUGHTER
  A daughter of one's grandson or granddaughter.
• PHASING TRANSFORMER
  Any of several transformers for changing phase.
• PARALLEL TRANSFORMER
  A transformer connected in parallel.
• AUTOTRANSFORMER
  A transformer in which part of the primary winding is used as a secondary winding, or vice versa; -- called also a compensator or balancing coil.
• GODDAUGHTER
  A female for whom one becomes sponsor at baptism.
• REFORMER
  One of those who commenced the reformation of religion in the sixteenth century, as Luther, Melanchthon, Zwingli, and Calvin. (more info) 1. One who effects a reformation or amendment; one who labors for, or urges, reform; as, a reformer
• TRANSFORMER
  One who, or that which, transforms. Specif. , an apparatus for producing from a given electrical current another current of different voltage.
• TESLA COIL; TESLA TRANSFORMER
  A transformer without iron, for high frequency alternating or oscillating currents; an oscillation transformer.