What's the difference between son and stepson?

Son


Definition:

  • (n.) A male child; the male issue, or offspring, of a parent, father or mother.
  • (n.) A male descendant, however distant; hence, in the plural, descendants in general.
  • (n.) Any young male person spoken of as a child; an adopted male child; a pupil, ward, or any other male dependent.
  • (n.) A native or inhabitant of some specified place; as, sons of Albion; sons of New England.
  • (n.) The produce of anything.
  • (n.) Jesus Christ, the Savior; -- called the Son of God, and the Son of man.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) His son, Karim Makarius, opened the gallery to display some of the legacy bequeathed to him by his father in 2009, as well as the work of other Argentine photographers and artists – currently images by contemporary photographer Facundo de Zuviria are also on show.
  • (2) At the time, with a regular supply of British immigrants arriving in large numbers in Australia, Biggs was able to blend in well as "Terry Cook", a carpenter, so well in fact that his wife, Charmian, was able to join him with his three sons.
  • (3) It comes in defiant journalism, like the story televised last week of a gardener in Aleppo who was killed by bombs while tending his roses and his son, who helped him, orphaned.
  • (4) Examination of the SON in such animals revealed that the oxytocinergic system is already modified by day 12 of dioestrus; during suckling-induced lactation, the anatomical changes are identical to those seen during a normal post-partum lactation.
  • (5) The only way we can change it, is if we get people to look in and understand what is happening.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Dean, Clare and their baby son.
  • (6) Some 10 years after arriving in Sheffield with her husband and three-year-old son, Bazzie is a success story.
  • (7) "I hope that he has the sleepless nights I have had for the past five weeks because my son sustained horrific injuries."
  • (8) He's called out for his lack of imagination in a stinging review by a leading food critic (Oliver Platt) and - after being introduced to Twitter by his tech-savvy son (Emjay Anthony) - accidentally starts a flame war that will lead to him losing his job.
  • (9) Scott was born in North Shields, Tyne and Wear, the youngest of the three sons of Colonel Francis Percy Scott, who served in the Royal Engineers, and his wife, Elizabeth.
  • (10) Simon Cross, 46, his partner Lizzy Gilliland, 42, and their son Gabriel, two, from Nottingham, expressed the views of many attending.
  • (11) The education secretary's wife, Sarah Vine, a columnist, said her son William, nine, and daughter Beatrice, 11, now realise how much their father is hated for his position in government because other children tell them in the playground.
  • (12) The personal experience of our son's prolonged hospitalization due to osteomyelitis (23 days) was detailed by an ongoing diary.
  • (13) For Bush Sr, the dilemma is all the more agonising as some of the White House advisers he now criticises are former employees he bequeathed to his son.
  • (14) Here we show that the subsequent survival and reproductive success of subordinate female red deer is depressed more by rearing sons than by rearing daughters, whereas the subsequent fitness of dominant females is unaffected by the sex of their present offspring.
  • (15) My son was born healthy, strong and very handsome, in spite of his dangerous start.
  • (16) That was long after the demolition of nearby Hyde Abbey, where he was originally buried with his son and other members of his family more than 1,000 years ago.
  • (17) Both Murdoch and his son James were called to testify before parliament.
  • (18) "I am in a bad situation, psychologically so bad and confused," one father said, surrounded by his three other young sons.
  • (19) It wasn't the best marriage – Jackie left me in 1962 when my first son, Paul, was 18 months old.
  • (20) She kept it up for three years, until her son's letters finally persuaded her to cut down to one day a week.

Stepson


Definition:

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

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Patrick, his stepson, faced similar racial slurs as officers asked him for the location of illegal guns because, as he recalled an officer saying, “you fuckers are making more money a day than I am”.
  • (2) Speaking outside court, Tomlinson's stepson Paul King said the not guilty verdict was "a joke".
  • (3) He is survived by his wife, daughter Gemma, stepson Steven and stepdaughter Rebecca.
  • (4) Ian Phillips London • When listing the ways the government tries to wriggle out of its obligation to provide a safety net to the unemployed, Zoe Williams might have added a bizarre definition of "immigrant" of which my stepson was recently a victim.
  • (5) He leaves office with a third wife, a new baby daughter, another stepson and two grandchildren.
  • (6) Still, he compared Ashtiani's case with that of Teresa Lewis, who was executed by lethal injection in the US state of Virginia for arranging the murder of her husband and stepson.
  • (7) His loyal wife, Janet died in 1995, and his son also predeceased him; he leaves a stepson and stepdaughter.
  • (8) Tomlinson's stepson Paul King said: "It's outrageous.
  • (9) Tomlinson's stepson Paul King said: "I think it's pointless, it hasn't proved anything to us.
  • (10) Howard, with Iris Murdoch, writes her stepson Martin Amis in his own memoir, Experience , "is the most interesting woman writer of her generation.
  • (11) Their host was Fombah Teh Sirleaf, the stepson of Liberia’s president and director of the country’s National Security Agency.
  • (12) Paul King, Tomlinson's stepson, said: "If the officer faces disciplinary charges now, does that mean he could get away with not facing charges for the death of our dad if there is an unlawful killing verdict at the inquest?
  • (13) There was a castle on its banks and nearby an ornamental fountain, one that spouted not water but lava – the flourish, as I took it, of a middle-aged man who might have started playing this game to communicate with his stepson, but who wound up enjoying himself, finding his ideas irresistible.
  • (14) I was miles away from Ferguson, Missouri, when I saw a photo of a grieved father with his handmade sign immediately after his stepson, Michael Brown, was killed by now-former Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson and his body was left in the street for over four hours on 9 August.
  • (15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Abraham Chaparro with a photograph of his murdered stepson, Miguel Garcia-Moran, outside his home in Brentwood.
  • (16) He enjoyed the job and saw it as his ticket out of the Haven House, a shelter where he lives with his wife, Kristen, and stepson.
  • (17) Wife and stepson charged in murder of Ku Klux Klan leader in Missouri Read more Asked for comment on the report, Andrew Anglin, the founder of the neo-Nazi Daily Stormer site, wrote: “It’s just more of the same goofy gibberish from the Jews.” After decades on the fringes of American life, racist hate groups found themselves unexpectedly in the mainstream news spotlight last year, as Ku Klux Klan members and neo-Nazis rejoiced at Donald Trump’s rise and his presidential victory.
  • (18) They handcuff you to a bench and one hand is cuffed to a rod on the wall.” He and his stepson were taken to separate windowless cells, handcuffed to the wall once more, and repeatedly encouraged to “help yourself”.
  • (19) Officers repeatedly using “a stream of insults, racial slurs, including the N-word, and threats” – including “bogus criminal offenses” – if his stepson did not provide intelligence on illegal guns.
  • (20) My two stepsons are in their 20s and in good jobs but they don't have a chance of buying a house.

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