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IN-LAW
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A relative by marriage
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("in-law" is a kind of...):
relation; relative (a person related by blood or marriage)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "in-law"):
brother-in-law (a brother by marriage)
daughter-in-law (the wife of your son)
father-in-law (the father of your spouse)
mother-in-law (the mother of your spouse)
sister-in-law (the sister of your spouse)
son-in-law (the husband of your daughter)
Context examples:
The opposite house on the horoscope wheel rules your other relatives—in-laws, stepparents, and stepsiblings, for example.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
A look of relief passed over my father’s honest face, for he was never very easy in his brother-in-law’s company.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Percy Phelps was walking very slowly, leaning upon the arm of his future brother-in-law.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It deranged his best plan of domestic happiness, his best hope of keeping Sir Walter single by the watchfulness which a son-in-law's rights would have given.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
Thereupon Dummling asked to have her for his wife; but the king did not like the son-in-law, and made all manner of excuses and said he must first produce a man who could drink a cellarful of wine.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
About half a dozen men came forward; and, one being selected by the magistrate, he deposed that he had been out fishing the night before with his son and brother-in-law, Daniel Nugent, when, about ten o’clock, they observed a strong northerly blast rising, and they accordingly put in for port.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
I know he wanted to speak, but I think, from something he once hinted, that he had promised his father not to do anything of the sort yet a while, for he is a rash boy, and the old gentleman dreads a foreign daughter-in-law.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
He was not a great favourite with his fair sister-in-law.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
As my mother-in-law's relations, I shall be happy to show them every respect.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Then she looked at me, and said: Is that your boy, sister-in-law?
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
