Stepson

  

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Stepson

Definition: Stepson

Stepson

Noun

1. 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)

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Modern Usage: Stepson

DomainUsage

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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Commercial Usage: Stepson

DomainTitle

Books

  • Little League Stepson (reference)

  • Stepson of the Forest an Anniversary Sto (reference)

  • The Stepson (reference)

  • Theseus as son and stepson : a tentative illustration of Greek mythological mentality (reference)

  • Vinnicombe's Trek: Son of Natla: Stepson of Transvaal 1854-1932 (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Stepson

SubjectTopicQuote

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.

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Usage Frequency: Stepson

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)98.8%8236,594
Noun (proper)1.2%1339,140
                    Total100.00%83N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Stepson

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "stepson": Stepson-in-law.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Stepson

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
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.

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Modern Translation: Stepson

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

   

Portuguese

  

enteado (stepchild). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

пасынок (stepchild, stepchildren). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

styvson. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

üvey oğul. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

пасерб. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

con trai riêng. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Stepson

Derivations

Words beginning with "stepson": stepsons. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Stepson" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Estepona, stilson, Stossen. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Stepson"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "stepson" (pronounced ste"psu'n)
3-s u' ngrandson.

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Anagrams: Stepson

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Usage Frequency
7. Expressions
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Derivations
11. Rhymes
12. Anagrams
13. Bibliography


  

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