stepmother
(noun) the wife of your father by a subsequent marriage
Source: WordNet® 3.1
stepmother (plural stepmothers)
The wife of one's biological father, other than one's biological mother.
Synonyms: bonus mother (euphemistic), co-mother (same-sex and polygamous families)
Coordinate term: stepfather
Hypernym: stepparent
(botany, rare) A viola, especially Viola tricolor, heartsease.
In Western heterosexual couples, this is typically after the divorce or death of the birth mother; in polygamous marriages and lesbian couples, the term may be used for co-mother or nonbirth mother.
• mother-in-law (dated)
Dialectal forms
• stepma (chiefly Ireland, US regional)
• stepmam (chiefly Ireland, Northern England)
• stepmama (chiefly US regional)
• stepmamma (chiefly US regional)
• stepmom (chiefly US)
• stepmum (chiefly UK, Commonwealth)
Source: Wiktionary
Step"moth`er, n. Etym: [AS. steópmoder.]
Definition: The wife of one's father by a subsequent marriage.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
19 June 2025
(noun) the condition of belonging to a particular place or group by virtue of social or ethnic or cultural lineage; “his roots in Texas go back a long way”; “he went back to Sweden to search for his roots”; “his music has African roots”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
