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Definition: Stepson |
StepsonNoun1. The son your spouse by a former marriage. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "stepson" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Crosswords: Stepson |
| English words defined with "stepson": Step- ♦ Ull, Ullr. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "stepson": Parisina. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I have one son who's about to become my daughter, another son whom people are trying to kill, I have a lunatic stepson and a dummy living in my home and a husband who won't make love to me. That's not life, that's something by Tennessee Williams! (Soap; writing credit: Jos Gevers; Jeroom Verten) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Mars' Stepson (1914) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Human Rights | Sierra Leone | RUF members tied up and beat the woman's stepson, who was accused of stealing diamonds. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Stepson" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.80% of the time. "Stepson" is used about 83 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 98.8% | 82 | 36,594 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.2% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 83 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "stepson": Stepson-in-law. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
stepson | 13 |
god stepson | 8 |
9th god stepson wonder | 8 |
poem stepson | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "stepson"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | thjeshtër (foundling, stepdaughter), djalë i gruas a burrit. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | إبن الزوج أو الزوجة, ربيب. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | доведен син. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 继子. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | nevlastní syn (step son). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | فرزندخوانده (Godchild, Stepchild), پسرزن , پسرشوهر, ناپسری . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | poikapuoli. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | beau-fils (stepchild). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Stiefsohn. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | πρόγονοσ (ancestor, ancestress, forbear, forebear, forefather, primogenitor, progenitor, stepchild), παραγυιόσ (adopted son). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | בן חור' (stepchild). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | mostohafiú. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | figliastro (stepchild). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 継息子 , まま息子 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ままむす". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | lhiass vac. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | epsonstay enteado (stepchild). (various references) пасынок (stepchild, stepchildren). (various references) styvson. (various references) üvey oğul. (various references) пасерб. (various references) con trai riêng. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "stepson": stepsons. (additional references) | |
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"Stepson" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Estepona, stilson, Stossen. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "stepson" (pronounced ste"psu'n) |
| 3 | -s u' n | grandson. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-n-o-p-s-s-t" | |
-1 letter: estops, netops, onsets, pestos, pontes, posset, ptoses, setons, stenos, stones, stopes. | |
-2 letters: estop, nests, netop, noses, notes, onset, opens, peons, pesos, pesto, pests, poets, pones, poses, posse, posts, septs, seton, snots, sones, spent, spots, steno, steps, stone, stope, stops, tones, topes. | |
-3 letters: eons, epos, ness, nest, nets, noes, nope, nose, note, ones, open. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-n-o-p-s-s-t" | |
+1 letter: pentoses, posteens, posterns, stepsons. | |
+2 letters: capstones, nepotisms, nepotists, outspends, patroness, penstocks, pentosans, pleustons, pointless, postpones, potstones, pythoness, saponites, snoopiest, soapstone, spongiest, spooniest, sportsmen, stanhopes, sternpost, teaspoons, topstones, transpose. | |
+3 letters: conspectus, copestones, copresents, dripstones, inspectors, interposes, passionate, pastedowns, patronises, penstemons, penthouses, personates, pipestones, politeness, portliness, postponers, postseason, postsynced, progestins, promptness, signposted, simpletons, soapstones, sportiness, spottiness, stenotypes, sternposts, stonecrops, stupendous, syncopates, townscapes, transposed, transposes, unstoppers. | |
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