Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Daughter-in-law \Daugh"ter-in-law`\, n.; pl. Daughters-in-law. The wife of one's son.
Wiktionary
n. The wife of one's son.
WordNet
n. the wife of your son
[also: daughters-in-law (pl)]
Usage examples of "daughter-in-law".
The filing of the decree of the Senate had acted like a charm upon our Capo of the Ten: the importance thus accorded to the Ca' Giustiniani soothed every vestige of wounded pride, while the beauty and grace of his prospective daughter-in-law had filled him with a triumph which only the frigid stateliness of his habitual demeanor enabled him to conceal, so great was the revulsion from his former state of feeling.
Palle may be willing to bully a young scholar like Egar Littel, who is not well connected, but the daughter-in-law of the Duke of Blackwater he would bow to if she picked his pocket.
He had already spent time with old Emil Tantor, who was pleased to be sharing his lonely house with his daughter-in-law Sheel and her three children.
So he was not banished, but to appease his daughter-in-law, the King banned his poetry and had every extant copy of his work destroyed.
A common sight for those who had the entry to the library was the baronet cherishing the hand of his daughter-in-law.
Henry, being mesne lord and also natural guardian to his son and daughter-in-law, put himself in possession of that principality, and annexed it for the present to his other great dominions.
May 1618, conform to citation, Isabella Garry, servitrix, and Margaret Lamb, daughter-in-law to George Thompson, appeared before the session, and were asked if they had been at the well in the bank of Huntingtower the previous Sabbath, and if they drank thereof, and if they had left anything at it.
To shampoo her parents-in-law, and nurse them affectionately, without employing either shampooer or servant-maid, is the right path of a daughter-in-law.
James returned to France in 1792, with her daughter-in-law, Lucette, also a French citizen by birth and the daughter of a silk merchant imprisoned at the time because of his counterrevolutionary sympathies, and her granddaughter, Angelique.
You and Captain Eide and my daughter-in-law all take the view it is either suicide or murder.
DOROTHY CANNELL Accepted as a daughter-in-law or not, I was going to have to enter the flat above the greengrocery shop.
He drew their attention to the pastries and jellies and creams, saying that they must thank his daughter-in-law, for they did not usually eat such kickshaws and he had not thought to provide for the tastes of young ladies.
What passage in literature is more pervaded with the pathetic charm of the affection of the early world than the story of Naomi and her widowed daughter-in-law, Ruth, the Moabitish ancestress of David and of Jesus?
He said these rubies had been in the family for a while and he decided to celebrate the birth of the next generation by making a pretty necklace for his future daughter-in-law.
Judith wondered if Lady Cres swell knew about her and if she liked the idea of having her for a daughter-in-law.