stepchild
pronunciation
How to pronounce stepchild in British English:
UK [ˈsteptʃaɪld]
How to pronounce stepchild in American English:
US [ˈstɛpˌtʃaɪld]
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- Noun:
- a child of your spouse by a former marriage
Word Origin
- stepchild (n.)
- also step-child, Old English steopcild; see step- + child (n.). Old English also had steopbearn. Similar formation in German Stiefkind.
Example
- 1. the underrepresented minority groups , ignored by the government . Aging is the neglected stepchild of the human life cycle .
- 2. It is a stark change for computer science , which for decades was treated like a stepchild , equated with trade classes like wood shop .
- 3. Documentation is the unwanted stepchild of many development efforts ; developers tend to focus on getting code written rather than on explaining the code that \'s already there .
- 4. Even so , physical education has fought stepchild status , competing with art and music for dollars , space and time in crowded academic schedules & and the ghosts of PE past .
- 5. The commerce Department has for many years been a stepchild of the city government . In some countries virginity is not as highly valued as it used to be .