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S vs Stepmother - What's the difference?

s | stepmother |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a noun stepmother is

the wife of one's biological father, other than one's biological mother.

s

Translingual

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Letter

  • The nineteenth letter of the .

    • Symbol

    (wikipedia) (mul-symbol)
  • voiceless alveolar fricative
  • Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.

    • See also

    (Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=ยทยทยท , Character=S , Braille=? }} Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur Symbols for SI units ----

    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