Stepford.
A surname.
Meaning & usage
A surname.
A placename
A placename: A locality in Dumfries and Galloway council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NX8681).
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree English step Proto-Indo-European *per- Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Indo-European *pértus Proto-Germanic *furduz Proto-West Germanic *furdu Old English ford English ford English Stepford From step + ford.
Docile, unthinking and conformist.
Attractive but lacking any character.
Where this word comes from
From the fictional place name Stepford. After the fictional suburb in the 1972 novel The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin, and in two films of the same name based on the novel.
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