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Mather vs Stepmother - What's the difference?

mather | stepmother |

As nouns the difference between mather and stepmother

is that mather is while stepmother is the wife of one's biological father, other than one's biological mother.

mather

English

Noun

    • (Webster 1913)

    stepmother

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The wife of one's biological father, other than one's biological mother.
  • A viola, especially Viola tricolor , heartsease.
  • *1974 , Thomas Teal, translating Tove Jansson, The Summer Book , Sort Of Books 2003, p. 115:
  • *:The second came up about ten days later in the lee of the channel marker, and it was called stepmother , or love-in-idelness.

    • Usage notes

    In Western heterosexual couples, this is typically after after the divorce or death of the birth mother; in polygamous marriages and lesbian couples, the term may be used for co-mother or nonbirth mother

    Synonyms

    * stepmom

    Hypernyms

    * stepparent

    See also

    * * ex-stepfather * ex-stepmother * ex-stepparent * stepbrother * stepchild * stepdaughter * stepfamily * stepfather * stepparent * stepsibling * stepsister * stepson