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son-in-law

son-in-law

85 2.1
A man who is married to your daughter
  • noun
  • /ˈsʌn ɪn lɔ/
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  • 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.

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Examples

  • After the wedding ceremony, my daughter introduced me to her new son-in-law.

  • Your son-in-law seemed really really thankful.

  • "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.

  • 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.

  • Father Phillipo... may I introduce Paul Sutton... my new son-in-law?

  • During the family gathering, my son-in-law shared some funny stories about his childhood.

Antonyms

A woman who is married to someone's son

Surface Forms

son-in-law singular
sons-in-law plural

Morphology

son-in-law = son + in-law (transparent) = son + in-law

The meaning is directly derived from the productive pattern 'X-in-law' (a relative by marriage) combined with 'son', so learners can compose the meaning from its parts.

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.