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STEPCHILD
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Irregular inflected form: stepchildren
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A child of your spouse by a former marriage
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("stepchild" is a kind of...):
child; kid (a human offspring (son or daughter) of any age)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "stepchild"):
stepdaughter (a daughter of your spouse by a former marriage)
stepson (the son your spouse by a former marriage)