What's the difference between goddaughter and stepdaughter?

Goddaughter


Definition:

  • (n.) A female for whom one becomes sponsor at baptism.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I'd always used a food processor but I had started to make cakes with my goddaughter.
  • (2) His exes were attractive, intelligent women such as Sheena McDonald, the television presenter, Marion Caldwell, a lawyer, and, most surprisingly, given his rather heavy reputation, Princess Margarita of Romania, Prince Philip's goddaughter, whom he met at university.
  • (3) The president’s other son-in-law – the Dutch businessman Jorrit Joost Faassen, married to Roldugin’s goddaughter Masha – is said to be a former employee.
  • (4) Criddy1979 is justifiably proud of the very professional knitted dress and cap she designed for her goddaughter.
  • (5) Probably my favourite picture in the slideshow is of my goddaughter Klara, standing on a paint can singing, with scarves wrapped around her.

Stepdaughter


Definition:

  • (n.) A daughter of one's wife or husband by a former marriage.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The companies’ names refer to his daughters Anya, who died in 2009, Vivian, and his stepdaughter Katharina .
  • (2) He is survived by his wife, daughter Gemma, stepson Steven and stepdaughter Rebecca.
  • (3) Ross divorced Jennifer, and, at the end of last year, married Jane Rye; Victoria is the stepdaughter of that marriage.
  • (4) After a brief first marriage to a banker, she is married to a photographer, Adrian Clarke, by whom she has two daughters, Albertine, 10 and Jessye, nine, as well as a 17-year-old stepdaughter, Molly, from his first marriage.
  • (5) My second wife, who is American, has only one child – my stepdaughter, Livvie – and she has several friends who also have no brothers and sisters and nothing is said about this.
  • (6) His loyal wife, Janet died in 1995, and his son also predeceased him; he leaves a stepson and stepdaughter.
  • (7) He is survived by Iman, their daughter, Lexi, his stepdaughter, Zulekha, and his son, Duncan (formerly known as Zowie, then Joe), from his first marriage.
  • (8) Alex Salmond has urged Bill Walker to resign his Holyrood seat after the independent MSP was convicted on Thursday of a string of violent attacks on his three former wives and a stepdaughter.
  • (9) When the 15-year-old Auguste Böhmer, daughter of Caroline Schlegel and stepdaughter of August Wilhelm Schlegel, died on 12th July 1800, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling was accused of being responsible for this tragic event, because he tried to treat her according to the medical system of John Brown.
  • (10) He had one daughter and a stepdaughter from his second marriage.
  • (11) Family married, one daughter, one son, two stepdaughters.
  • (12) This article compares incest between biologic fathers and their daughters and stepfathers and their stepdaughters.
  • (13) I think she probably realised that he had some early signs of dementia.” Born Anne Frances Robbins on July 6 1923, New York City Family Married Ronald Reagan in 1952; one son, one daughter, one stepson, one stepdaughter Education Smith College, Massachusetts Career Contract actress Metro Goldwyn-Mayer 1949-56 Films include: East Side, West Side (1949), Night into Morning (1951) and Hellcats of the Navy (1957).
  • (14) Her daughter, Philip’s stepdaughter, said: “Phil, my stepdad, my costa buddy, you were always there no matter what to keep me safe and make me happy.” Philip’s mother thanked the emergency services, police, nurses, support staff family and friends for their support during such a “harrowing time”.
  • (15) He moved on leaving his son and also his stepdaughter in the care of their mother, which rather put the kibosh on Kathleen Wyatt’s right to “move on” herself.
  • (16) In 2007, Sarkozy put his second wife, two stepdaughters and three sons from different marriages centre stage at his inauguration.
  • (17) Beverley Robinson went through two incarnations; her stepdaughter Lucy three.
  • (18) I have two brothers, two sisters-in-law, stepdaughters and stepgranddaughters and nieces and nephews and 18 cousins.
  • (19) The author summarizes 4 years of intensive psychotherapy with a patient who engaged in various forms of self-destructive behavior, including the sexual fondling of his 14-year-old stepdaughter.
  • (20) • The Scottish parliament has produced plans to dock the pay of the disgraced MSP Bill Walker if he is jailed after being convicted for repeated violent assaults on three former wives and a stepdaughter.