mother-in-law
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- noun
- /ˈmʌðər ɪn lɔː/
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suegra
- Oh no, how do I get my mother-in-law to like me?
- husband's mother-in-law
- wife and mother-in-law
- mother-in-law and her daughter
Please welcome Antoinette Bond and her mother-in-law, Gloria Bond.
- Please welcome Antoinette Bond and her mother-in-law, Gloria Bond.
- Oh no, how do I get my mother-in-law to like me?
- Like the mother-in-law said, bring your own food, right?
- What's happening, Is it different being a mother-in-law than a mother is that I don't know.
- So like, thank God I have a great relationship with my mother-in-law.
- Every Christmas I score pajama pants from my mother-in-law.
- How do you handle a soon to be overbearing mother-in-law?
- Amanda, her husband Pierre, and mother-in-law all went to dinner.
Examples
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Amanda, her husband Pierre, and mother-in-law all went to dinner.
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Two days later, Ellickson finally called his mother-in-law so that he could talk to his wife, and Laura answered.
Academic text (2010) -
Yes, my dear mother-in-law, that is correct.
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My, my mother-in-law lives with us and she is from Russia.
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Like the mother-in-law said, bring your own food, right?
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My mother-in-law gave my wife and I this for our wedding.
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And while I eat this, my mother-in-law makes a mean carrot cake.
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I was pregnant in 1979 and began to ask my mother-in-law about childbirth.
Academic text (2004) -
I'd really like my mother-in-law to stop gifting me socks.
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After dinner, I always enjoy chatting with my mother-in-law about her travels.
Synonyms
The mother of your husband or wife
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Mother-in-law combines mother and in-law, where in-law shows a family tie 'by marriage' rather than by blood. So a mother-in-law is your spouse's mother and is part of your family 'through marriage'.