stepbrother:
(also written: ‘step-brother’ or ‘step brother’; plural: ‘stepbrothers‘; for the right pronunciation of this word, please click here)
President Obama’s stepbrother (L), Malik Obama
a brother related to you by marriage; not by blood;
a son of one’s stepmother or stepfather, i.e., if a person’s own father marries another woman or a person’s own mother marries another man, the son of the woman from her previous husband or the son of the man from his previous wife becomes the person’s step-brother,
a step-brother who killed his little step-sister
When young Kate met her stepbrother for the first time, she felt a sort of empathy for him and soon they both became the best friends.
In some societies, step-brothers don’t usually have any right to claim for any share in family property as they are not blood-related to anyone in the family directly.
We find more sibling rivalry in step-siblings — step-brothers and step-sisters — of a family than we do in cases of half-siblings, and sociologists believe that the difference may be due to the fact that step-siblings are not related to one another by blood as the half-siblings are!
