Crossword clues for brother-in-law
brother-in-law
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Brother-in-law \Broth"er-in-law`\, n.; pl. Brothers-in-law. The brother of one's husband or wife; also, the husband of one's sister; sometimes, the husband of one's wife's sister.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300; also brother in law; see brother. In Arabic, Urdu, Swahili, etc., brother-in-law, when addressed to a male who is not a brother-in-law, is an extreme insult, with implications of "I slept with your sister."
Wiktionary
alt. 1 A male relative of one's generation, separated by one degree of marriage: 2 # The brother of one's spouse. 3 # The husband of one's sibling. 4 (context uncommon English) co-brother-in-law: A male relative of one's generation, separated by two degrees of marriage: 5 # The husband of the sibling of one's spouse. 6 # The brother of the spouse of one's sibling. n. 1 A male relative of one's generation, separated by one degree of marriage: 2 # The brother of one's spouse. 3 # The husband of one's sibling. 4 (context uncommon English) co-brother-in-law: A male relative of one's generation, separated by two degrees of marriage: 5 # The husband of the sibling of one's spouse. 6 # The brother of the spouse of one's sibling.
WordNet
n. a brother by marriage
[also: brothers-in-law (pl)]
Usage examples of "brother-in-law".
Robert Burnet had refused to sign the Scottish Covenant, although the document was drawn up by his brother-in-law, Archibald Johnstone, Lord Warristoun.
I have received a letter from De Montaigne, his brother-in-law, who seems seriously uneasy about Castruccio.
Chillingworth and Dumond probably thought they could push your overbearing brothers-in-law to challenge you by propagating those ruinous lies.
Gisella, her sister and brother-in-law, his cousin, who had thrown in his lot with them, and a passel of children, who ranged in age from still-suckling to ten or older.
When he returned to his investigations of his petrified brother-in-law he was in possession of a stout stick heavily mounted with a silver knob.
Mr Pinnock, my brother-in-law, who had been one of the party, came in, apparently much agitated.
But at the final revocation of the Edict of Nantes, he thought his conscience, or rather his vanity, compromised, and quitted France, although the King offered to allow him a chaplain of his communion, and a dispensation from all the oaths, to Petitot himself, to Boyer, his brother-in-law, and the chaplain whom they had retained with them.
Anna Sprug was very happy to have her sister, brother-in-law, and their children with her in this strange place.
For, some years earlier, when he was Archduke of Styria, Ferdinand had signed an agreement with his cousin and brother-in-law, the King of Spain.
Worst of all, though, was a new report from Prague, delivered by a courier in red-and-gold De Quester livery, describing how a Habsburg, Ferdinand of Styria, was soon to be elected Holy Roman Emperor with the blessing of his cousin and brother-in-law, the King of Spain.
Government at large and I, or even my new brother-in-law and I, seem to be in close agreement.
Eastern Emperor, a great expedition against Carthage, which failed through no fault of his, but by the bad generalship of Basiliscus, whose brother-in-law, Leo, had appointed him to the command.
As a result, West claimed, he would never risk taking Lucy Partington to a pub or a cafe, or indeed to anywhere else in Cheltenham, for fear of encountering his brother-in-law.
But, generous and freehearted as the Secretary was, there was a grain of distrust of his brother-in-law in his heart still.
Tidings, the brother-in-law, recalled the favor he had done Tidings, and Hedges sounded sincere.