stepsister

See also: step-sister

English

Alternative forms

• step-sister

Etymology

step- +‎ sister

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: step‧sis‧ter

Noun

stepsister (plural stepsisters)

1. The daughter of one's stepparent who is not the daughter of either of one's parents.
2. The stepdaughter of one's parent which is not one's half-sister.

Synonyms

• stepsis

Hypernyms

• stepfamily
  • stepdaughter
  • stepsibling

Translations

daughter from the previous marriage of a stepparent

• Asturian: hermanastra (ast) f, hermanasca (ast) f
• Catalan: germanastra (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 繼姊妹, 继姊妹 (jìzǐmèi)

• Esperanto: vicfratino
• Finnish: sisarpuoli, siskopuoli
• German: Stiefschwester (de) f
• Greek: ετεροθαλής αδελφή f (eterothalís adelfí)
• Icelandic: stjúpsystir f
• Ido: stif-fratino
• Indonesian: kakak tiri (older), adik tiri (younger)
• Irish: leasdeirfiúr f
• Italian: sorellastra f
• Japanese: まゝ姉妹 (まましまい, mamashimai)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: زڕخوشک‎ (zirrxuşk)

• Latin: vitrici filia f (1), novercae filia f (2)
• Macedonian: по́лусестра f (pólusestra)

• Maori: tuahine kē (of a male)
• Norman: d'mié-soeu f (Jersey), soeu empruntée f (Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: stesøster m or f

  Nynorsk: stesøster f, stesyster f

• Persian: خواهندر‎ (xâhandar), ناخواهری‎ (fa) (naxwahari)
• Portuguese: irmã de criação f
• Russian: сво́дная сестра́ (ru) f (svódnaja sestrá)
• Scottish Gaelic: leas-phiuthar f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: по̏лусестра f

  Roman: pȍlusestra (sh) f

• Slovak: nevlastná sestra f
• Slovene: polsestra f
• Spanish: hermanastra f
• Swedish: plastsyster c, styvsyster (sv) c
• Volapük: jlublod, jilugem, lusör (vo)

See also

• Category:English words prefixed with step-