Crossword clues for in-law
The Collaborative International Dictionary
in-law \in"-law`\, n. A person who is related by marriage, as distinguished from a blood relative; esp. mother-in-law (the mother of one's spouse), father-in-law (the father of one's spouse), brother-in-law (the brother of one's spouse, or husband of one's spouse's sister), sister-in-law (the sister of one's spouse, or wife of one's spouse's brother).
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1894, "anyone of a relationship not natural," abstracted from father-in-law, etc.The position of the 'in-laws' (a happy phrase which is attributed ... to her Majesty, than whom no one can be better acquainted with the article) is often not very apt to promote happiness. ["Blackwood's Magazine," 1894]The earliest recorded use of the phrase is in brother-in-law (13c.); the law is Canon Law, which defines degrees of relationship within which marriage is prohibited.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A relative by marriage (or through affinity). affinal relative; affine. 2 Sometimes specifically a parent-in-law of one's child, for which the dedicated terms co-mother-in-law, co-father-in-law are rare
WordNet
n. a relative by marriage [syn: relative-in-law]
Wikipedia
In-law may refer to:
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Affinity (law), kinship by marriage, such as a
- Mother-in-law
- Father-in-law
- Brother-in-law
- Sister-in-law
- Daughter-in-law
- Son-in-law
- Cousin-in-law
- Uncle-in-law
- Aunt-in-law
- Nephew-in-law
- Niece-in-law
- Co-mother-in-law (the relationship between women whose children are married to each other)
- Co-father-in-law
- Co-brother-in-law (the relationship between men who are married to sisters)
- Co-sister-in-law
- Co-wife (another wife of one's husband)
- Co-husband
- In-law apartment, a type of secondary residence
- In-Laws, an American situation comedy that aired on NBC
- The In-Laws, a 1979 film
- The In-Laws, a 2003 film
Usage examples of "in-law".
When some well-heeled Asian men come to the States, they leave their wives at home with the kiddies and in-laws.
There was no pollution, no war, no deafening street music, no drugs, no rapacious physicians and lawyers and impresarios, no muggers, no in-laws, no bills or debts, no automobiles, no newspaper propaganda, no television lies, no politicians, no crowds, no timetables.
The four hundred volumes that passed to me (which included the Trollopes but, unfortunately, not Fanny Hill) were at first segregated on their own wall, the bibliothecal equivalent of a separate in-law apartment.
He was probably one of those visitors' partners whose supportive resolution failed at the threshold of Bedlammany in-laws preferred to wait outside while their better halves attended to the moral duty of comforting their afflicted kinbut it was possible that Isabel had forbidden him to come in and be properly introduced.
But, in reality, what Mike heard on the frequency was small talk, people on cordless phones discussing their ailments and symptoms, their boyfriends, their pets, their in-laws and recipes.
If, for example, he is a forty-year-old middle manager with two teen-age sons, two surviving parents or in-laws, and an incipient duodenal ulcer, he can assume that within half a decade his boys will be off to college or living away on their own.
If a jeweler up here ever put it in an estate sale, and my in-laws ever saw it, I’.
Brothers who didn't have cousins, godsons, sons of godfathers, or in-laws of cousins all over central Thuringia.
Decided to get my savings and gratuity out of the Pacific Bank and set up here, ma'am, once my in-laws sent word how well things were going in Irondale," he said.
Decided to get my savings and gratuity out of the Pacific Bank and set up here, ma’am, once my in-laws sent word how well things were going in Irondale,” he said.
He inquired after madame de Mirepoix, and whether my sisters in-law were uneasy respecting his state of health.
Lord Tennyson's uncle, the Balfour family, and their in-laws, formed the Society for Psychical Research, and Alfred Lord Tennyson was a member.
Under other circumstances, Simpson would probably have been amused watching Stearns trying to control the semi-anarchy he'd forged by bestowing the franchise over all of the local Germans and their immigrant cousins and in-laws as soon as they moved into the United States' territory.
A man with seven sons who all had wives and in-laws and children of their own soon gave up keeping tally on what people were called.