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    DAUGHTER-IN-LAW

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

    Irregular inflected form: daughters-in-law  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    The wife of your sonplay

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting people

    Hypernyms ("daughter-in-law" is a kind of...):

    in-law; relative-in-law (a relative by marriage)

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     Context examples: 

    Though her late conversation with her daughter-in-law had made her resolve on remaining at Norland no longer than was unavoidable, it had not produced the smallest effect on her in that point to which it principally tended.

    (Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)


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