Biological father and Stepfather

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Stepfather and biological father are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Stepfather" instead a noun phrase "Biological father".

Stepfather noun - The husband of your mother by a subsequent marriage.

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Biological father and stepfather are semantically related. You can use "Biological father" instead a noun "Stepfather".

Insistent Terminology: Emaline from The Moon and More has both her biological father and stepfather in her life; she calls her biological father "my father" and the man who raised her "my dad".

Source: Creator / Sarah Dessen
After the death of both his stepfather and biological father, James runs away from home, and he has been scratching a living ever since.

Source: Film / X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Victorian retellings of Donkeyskin frequently changed Donkeyskin's incestuous biological father to her adopted father or stepfather and her gold-pooping donkey had gold fall out of its ears instead.

Source: Bowdlerise / Myth And Legend

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