stepmother
/ˈstɛpmʌðə/ sustantivo B2En español: madrastra
- A person or thing likened to a stereotypical stepmother, having cold, cruel, or ungenerous qualities.
- An animal, typically a bird, who raises the offspring of another animal.
- Synonym of co-mother (“the non-birth mother of a child in a lesbian couple”).
Plural stepmothers
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"Well, that is not unknown among stepmothers.
She entered the apartment, and seeing near her stepmother the stranger of whom she had already heard so much, saluted him without any girlish awkwardness, or even lowering her eyes, and with an elegance that redoubled the count’s attention.
“A stepmother is never a mother, sir.
First she fancied she saw her stepmother threatening her, then Morrel stretched his arms towards her; sometimes mere strangers, like the Count of Monte Cristo came to visit her; even the very furniture, in these moments of delirium, seemed to move, and this state lasted till about three o’clock in the morning, when a deep, heavy slumber overcame the young girl, from which she did not awake till daylight.
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