son-in-law
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2.1
- noun
- /ˈsʌn ɪn lɔ/
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yerno
- I am excited to meet my daughter's husband, as he will soon be my son-in-law.
- daughter and son-in-law
- tell the son-in-law
- former son-in-law
What they did is Robert Lansing, who was his son-in-law, right of of John W Foster.
- What they did is Robert Lansing, who was his son-in-law, right of of John W Foster.
- And the son-in-law, of course, he was an engineer.
- He said he didn't want his son-in-law in his shop, but he is in the shop.
- And then they give them back to my son-in-law and said, you know, it's, we haven't found nothing.
- I have a new granddaughter and my daughter and my son-in-law are just completely adoring of her.
- He goes, it's me and Mario, and Mario used to be my son-in-law.
- But first, outside of President Trump, few were villainized by the press more than his son-in-law, Jared Kushner.
- In fairness to Kushner, his qualifications go well beyond being Donald Trump's son-in-law.
- I always had step one stop, yes, Bayside restaurant on Sunday with my kids and my son-in-law ordered swordfish and he does that a lot.
Examples
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After the wedding ceremony, my daughter introduced me to her new son-in-law.
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Your son-in-law seemed really really thankful.
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"It's not healthy, all this time alone," her son-in-law, the therapist, had said.
Fiction book (1991) -
Your son-in-law dealt with the dry cleaning franchise during the day.
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In 1973, the farmer retired and moved to town, and his son-in-law became the farm operator.
Academic text (1991) -
I have a new granddaughter and my daughter and my son-in-law are just completely adoring of her.
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Father Phillipo... may I introduce Paul Sutton... my new son-in-law?
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During the family gathering, my son-in-law shared some funny stories about his childhood.
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Son-in-law joins son and in-law. The in-law part means 'by law' or 'by marriage', so a son-in-law is a man who became your son through marriage rather than by birth.