What's the difference between stepbrother and stepmother?

Stepbrother


Definition:

  • (n.) A brother by the marriage of one's father with the mother of another, or of one's mother with the father of another.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In the tradition of Saturday Night Live all three have already collaborated on the big screen, Akiva directing and Andy and Jorma starring as stepbrothers in Hot Rod.
  • (2) In a sign that the killing spree has left no sector of Norwegian society untouched, the royal court has announced that the 51-year-old was the stepbrother of Mette-Marit, Norway's crown princess.
  • (3) Though he greets my mention of it with a grimace, one of the more colourful aspects of his story is that – thanks to his father's second marriage – his stepbrother is the actor Daniel Craig, aka James Bond.
  • (4) Mercer’s step-sister, Carmen Nesnick, expressed shock and confusion over her stepbrother’s role in the attack, telling reporters on Thursday night that he was a “nice guy”.
  • (5) It would be better if she didn’t talk about her stepbrother’s suicide, she remembers the counselor telling her.
  • (6) Even if you aren't up on your Austen, it's the least likely candidate – her cynical ex-stepbrother, Josh (Paul Rudd) – that we should keep an eye on.
  • (7) The proband's stepbrother died of pancytopenia and rectal adenocarcinoma.
  • (8) Kim Jong-un also has four step siblings: three stepsisters and one stepbrother.
  • (9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Murdo Macleod Julie Myerson, author, 54 What I wish I’d known… Our parents were always open with us about sex and sexuality, but when I was 12 my sisters and I suddenly gained two stepbrothers and Mum decided that the five of us - all on the excruciating cusp of puberty - should be educated about the finer points together.
  • (10) Anyone who lived through EastEnders’ live week, which climaxed in Lucy’s 11-year-old stepbrother Bobby being exposed as her killer, was horrified to see the mystery make a comeback.
  • (11) Joyce Greenberg, a retired financial adviser in Texas said her family had begun investing money with Madoff in the 1970s after being introduced by her stepbrother.
  • (12) After his first major role in 1995's Clueless – Rudd plays a stepbrother who acts as the Greek chorus to Alicia Silverstone's Cher, constantly mocking the acquisitive high-schooler and ultimately, yes, getting with her – Rudd returned to New York to spend almost a year working on The Last Night of Bally- hoo , a play by Alfred Uhry, best known for Driving Miss Daisy .

Stepmother


Definition:

  • (n.) The wife of one's father by a subsequent marriage.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Because of multiple effusions of blood of variable age located at the child's body the stepmother was noticed and accused of assault and battery, but the trial ended in acquittal.
  • (2) Every now and again, the bin lid came up a tiny bit and then went down again,” says his stepmother, Liz.
  • (3) Let me know how you get on ... in due course.” His nest had been half empty for a while, in that my mother had died 10 years beforehand, and when I left for university, he was beginning a relationship with the charming woman who became my stepmother.
  • (4) So they took me in for admission with my stepmother and younger brother who was just about two years old.
  • (5) Domestic violence also affects children, more than 40% of Indigenous children witnessing violence against their mother or stepmother in the NT, compared with 23% of all children.
  • (6) Saliu said she fled Nigeria in 2011 after her stepmother told her she would get her oldest daughter, Bassy, cut.
  • (7) My father and stepmother have said that they could act as a guarantors for the mortgage.
  • (8) Transposing the Brothers Grimm to 1920s Spain, he doffs his montera not only to European silent cinema of the period, but to bullfighting and flamenco, with an atmospheric Gothic melodrama that has lashings of humour – mostly provided by Maribel Verdú as the social-climbing evil stepmother with a penchant for S&M – bags of invention, and an expressive, flamenco-inflected score by Alfonso de Vilallonga.
  • (9) First, his lab technician father, followed by his stepmother, his grandmother, two-year-old brother and 13-year-old sister.
  • (10) Society, in times and places, has seemed to perceive stepmothers in a negative way.
  • (11) The novelist Martin Amis has given credit for his career in literature: it's not due to his novelist father, Kingsley, but all down to his stepmother, Elizabeth Jane Howard – and Jane Austen .
  • (12) They had likewise sold my stepmother quite unnecessary insurances, but repaid in full (£750) and sent me a personal cheque of £50 for my trouble and a Christmas hamper to my stepmother."
  • (13) An impressive case of a 48-year-old woman is reported who after parental divorce when she was two-year-old grew up under a wicked stepmother and developed various obsessive symptoms.
  • (14) Lee Hunter, Lisa Lees’s brother, wrote on Facebook: “For those who don’t know, Lisa is gone but never, ever forgotten.” Jordan Howe confirmed his stepmother had died.
  • (15) I don’t know what to do.” Mark Stocker has asked for help in locating his father and stepmother, John and Janet.
  • (16) Forty-two percent of Indigenous young people report witnessing violence against a mother or stepmother, compared with 23% of all children.
  • (17) His stepmother, an impassioned national socialist, later encouraged him to join the SS, the Nazi party’s elite paramilitary organisation, rather than the armed forces of the Wehrmacht.
  • (18) British Gas Several readers had complaints about the energy provider, including Andrew Joslin, who said: "My stepmother is a widow who lives alone 90 miles from me.
  • (19) They knew it was their fault, because the boy was seen as a collaborator.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Danny Fitzsimons’ father Eric and stepmother Liz are desperate to bring him home.
  • (20) We really are concerned that wherever he does end up he is safe," said his stepmother.