Definition of "stepdaughter" [step•daugh•ter]

• A spouse's daughter by a previous union. (noun)

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• "They bring him back into contact with the child he adored, a short-term stepdaughter from a misbegotten marriage long ago."
• "Eleanor, my stepdaughter, is inbetween flats (leaving her sandwich year in London, and about to start her final year business studies degree in Nottingham)."
• "KING: Now, you call your stepdaughter Janet, but that's not the name she uses, right?"