Daughter-in-law definition

dôtər-ĭn-lô
daughters-in-law
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The wife of one's son or, now sometimes, of one's daughter.
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The wife of one's child.
noun
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The wife of one's child.
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Noun

Singular:
daughter-in-law
Plural:
daughters-in-law

Daughter-in-law Sentence Examples

  • After dinner, he went to see his daughter-in-law.

  • During his later years he had some trouble with his eldest son and his daughter-in-law.

  • In fact, your new daughter-in-law may be delighted to go shopping with you.

  • There was his wife, his son, his future daughter-in-law.

  • Like her daughter-in-law Theophano and other exalted ladies of this period, Adelaide possessed considerable literary attainments (literatissima erat), and her knowledge of Latin was of use to Otto I., who only learned the language late in life and remained to the end a poor scholar.

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