father-in-law
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- noun
- /ˈfɑːðər ɪn lɔː/
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- My father-in-law loves to share stories about his childhood.
- mother and father-in-law
- husband and father-in-law
- uncle and father-in-law
He goes back to Chicago, works for his father-in-law, some shopkeeper in Chicago.
- He goes back to Chicago, works for his father-in-law, some shopkeeper in Chicago.
- We we, we know that his father-in-law was somebody who he was very close to.
- And he's also the father-in-law of Hamza bin Laden's second wife.
- I was taken shooting by my father-in-law, and he has a good friend who collects guns.
- But what is the longer term impact of your behaviour on your father-in-law?
- So TomTom is actually my father-in-law.
- You've you mentioned you lost your father-in-law last week.
- He Locke calls my dad, his father-in-law, his father-in-law.
Examples
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- So I toast to my future father-in-law.
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Recently, his father-in-law was ill, and the whole family stayed at the hospital day after day.
Academic text (2006) -
My mom, my friends, my father-in-law, they were right.
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And immediately his father-in-law says, hey, what are they doing?
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My father-in-law gave it to me as a wedding present.
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Her father-in-law was the principal of a government college.
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I go to my now father-in-law to ask for his blessing to marry his daughter.
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This is my future father-in-law, Gerald, and his lovely wife, Helen.
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I sat on the rocker in the guest room and watched my father-in-law work his wonder.
Fiction book (1990) -
After that, Josie danced with her father-in-law while Harold danced with her mother.
Fiction book (1990)
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Father-in-law is made of father, in-, and law, and it means a father who is part of your family 'by law' or 'by marriage' rather than your own father. So a father-in-law is the father of your husband or wife.