Definitions for step-
step-

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1. step-prefix

   A prefix used before father, mother, brother, sister, son, daughter, child, and so forth, to indicate that the person being identified is not a blood relative but is related through the marriage of a parent.

2. Etymology: From step-, from steop-, from steupa-, from (s)teup-. Cognate with step-, stiep-, Dutch stief-, steef-, German stief-, Swedish styv-, Icelandic stjúp-. Related to Old English stiepan.

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1. Step-

   a prefix used before father, mother, brother, sister, son, daughter, child, etc., to indicate that the person thus spoken of is not a blood relative, but is a relative by the marriage of a parent; as, a stepmother to X is the wife of the father of X, married by him after the death of the mother of X. See Stepchild, Stepdaughter, Stepson, etc

2. Etymology: [AS. step-; akin to OFries. stiap-, stiep-, D. & G. stief-, OHG. stiuf-, Icel. stjp-, Sw. styf-, and to AS. stpan, stepan, to deprive, bereave, as children of their parents, OHG. stiufen.]

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1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of step- in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of step- in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of step- in a Sentence

1. Alaina Percival:

   A large percentage of the male engineers I've met have said they got into coding by playing video games, so hopefully this will be a step in the right direction to getting young women and girls inspired to pursue careers in software engineering.

2. Jerry Colangelo:

   This is the first step in USA Basketball identifying the 12 players who will represent the United States as members of the 2020 U.S. Olympic men's basketball team in Tokyo, over the course of the remainder of the NBA season we'll continue to monitor all of the athletes.

3. Joe Kennedy:

   I've got my eyes closed and I feel all these people around me. I'm like, God, I hope those aren't kids, i'm sitting there and I'm going, 'God, thank you for this opportunity.' And ... if this is the last time I step on the field with these guys. ...

4. Sheri Guyse:

   A few of their demands were met, and of course that's a step in the right direction, but the only thing I'm feeling really good about today is that there's a big election in November where a lot of these legislators will lose their jobs.

5. Andrew Torba:

   I didn't set out to build a' conservative social network' by any means, but I felt that it was time for a conservative leader to step up and to provide a forum where anybody can come and speak freely without fear of censorship, every major communication outlet, every major social network, is run, owned, controlled and operated by progressive leaders, progressive workers in Silicon Valley.

References

1. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Step-
2. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/step-