Adoptive mother
Stepmother and adoptive mother are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Stepmother" instead a noun phrase "Adoptive mother".
Stepmother
Stepmother noun - The wife of your father by a subsequent marriage.
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Synonyms for Stepmother
Adoptive mother and stepmother are semantically related. You can use "Adoptive mother" instead a noun "Stepmother".
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Related pairs
- mother and adoptive mother
- mother and stepmother
- parent and adoptive mother
- parent and stepmother
- guardian and adoptive mother
- guardian and stepmother
- foster-father and adoptive mother
- foster-father and stepmother
- foster mother and adoptive mother
- foster mother and stepmother
- foster-mother and adoptive mother
- foster-mother and stepmother
- foster-parent and adoptive mother
- foster-parent and stepmother
Both terms in one sentence
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Regina is Snow's stepmother, making her Emma's step-grandmother, and Henry's step- great-grandmother, but is also Henry's adoptive mother.
Source: Big Screwed-Up Family - Then there's the fact that Henry and his grandmother Snow could be considered step-siblings through the complexity of the relationship between Snow and Regina; the two were stepmother and stepdaughter, and Regina became Henry's adoptive mother.
Source: Big Screwed-Up Family -
Wicked Stepmother: Inverted; Lindesfarne considers Kell more of a mother than her original adoptive mother.
Source: Webcomic / Kevin & Kell
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