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STEPFAMILY

Specialty Definition: STEPFAMILY

DomainDefinition

Census

A "married couple" family in which there is at least one stepchild of the householder present. If the child has been adopted by the householder, that child is classified as an adopted child and the family is not classified as a stepfamily, unless another non-adopted stepchild is present. Related terms: Adopted child, Family. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Stepfamily

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Stepfamily is a family with a child of one spouse's previous spouse (called stepchild).

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Stepfamily."

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Commercial Usage: STEPFAMILY

DomainTitle

Books

  • The Stepfamily Puzzle: Intergenerational Influences (Journal of Divorce and Remarriage, Vol 19, No 3/4) (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: STEPFAMILY

"STEPFAMILY" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 60.00% of the time. "STEPFAMILY" is used about 10 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adverb (general)60%6143,867
Noun (proper)40%4175,879
                    Total100.00%10N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: STEPFAMILY

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

stepfamily

26

circus stepfamily

10

problem stepfamily

4

issue stepfamily

2

foundation stepfamily

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: STEPFAMILY

Language Translations for "STEPFAMILY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Japanese Kanji 

  

ステアリン酸 (dance step, stacker, state, status, steal, stearic acid, Stegodon, Stegosaurus, step, step-by-step, steppe, stepping, steps, stick, sticker, stinger, stitch, thingirl). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ステップファミリー . (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

epfamilystay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: STEPFAMILY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-f-i-l-m-p-s-t-y"

-1 letter: playtimes.

-2 letters: flamiest, fleapits, mayflies, palmiest, playtime, ptyalism, steamily, taleysim.

-3 letters: amplest, amplify, aplites, emptily, falsity, fetials, filmset, fleapit, flypast, impales, impaste, leftism, limpest, limpets, limpsey, meatily, misplay, mistype, paisley, paliest, palmist, pastime, platies, pyemias, talipes.

-4 letters: aplite, easily, emails, espial, falsie, family, fealty, featly, feisty, festal, fetial, fiesta, filets, flames, fleams, fliest, flimsy.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Usage: Commercial
2. Usage Frequency
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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