Category:Step-

Step-. Etym: [as. steóp-; akin to ofries. stiap-, stiep-, d. & g. Stief-, ohg. stiuf-, icel. stj, sw. styf-, and to as. astepan, Asteópan, to deprive, bereave, as children of their parents, ohg. Stiufen.]

Defn: a prefix used before father, mother, brother, sister, son, Daughter, child, etc., to indicate that the person thus spoken of is Not a blood relative, but is a relative by the marriage of a parent; As, a stepmother to x is the wife of the father of x, married by him After the death of the mother of x. See stepchild, stepdaughter, Stepson, etc.