Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The father of one's spouse.
- noun Archaic A stepfather.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The father of a husband or wife, considered in his relationship to the other spouse.
- noun A stepfather.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The father of one's husband or wife; -- correlative to
son-in-law anddaughter-in-law .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One's
spouse 'sfather . - noun dated A
stepfather .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the father of your spouse
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Examples
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V. -- Your own fortune, father-in-law (in certain kinds of society they say _papa father-in-law_) yielding an income of twenty thousand, and which will soon be increased by an inheritance.
Analytical Studies Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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V. -- Your own fortune, father-in-law (in certain kinds of society they say _papa father-in-law_) yielding an income of twenty thousand, and which will soon be increased by an inheritance.
Petty Troubles of Married Life Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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V. -- Your own fortune, father-in-law (in certain kinds of society they say _papa father-in-law_) yielding an income of twenty thousand, and which will soon be increased by an inheritance.
Petty Troubles of Married Life, Complete Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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Bethenny calls her father-in-law an idiot on Thanksgiving because she didn't notice the turkey wasn't cooking then she goes to therapy and blames the tantrum on her childhood, I point out.
Vanessa Carmichael: Reality Women Vanessa Carmichael 2011
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Bethenny calls her father-in-law an idiot on Thanksgiving because she didn't notice the turkey wasn't cooking then she goes to therapy and blames the tantrum on her childhood, I point out.
Vanessa Carmichael: Reality Women Vanessa Carmichael 2011
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But out of the flood of unfamiliar language swirling around her, her ears picked up two familiar words: the phrase her father-in-law had taught her, meaning “wife of Chavez.”
Project Everlasting Mathew Boggs 2007
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But out of the flood of unfamiliar language swirling around her, her ears picked up two familiar words: the phrase her father-in-law had taught her, meaning “wife of Chavez.”
Project Everlasting Mathew Boggs 2007
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But out of the flood of unfamiliar language swirling around her, her ears picked up two familiar words: the phrase her father-in-law had taught her, meaning “wife of Chavez.”
Project Everlasting Mathew Boggs 2007
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But out of the flood of unfamiliar language swirling around her, her ears picked up two familiar words: the phrase her father-in-law had taught her, meaning “wife of Chavez.”
Project Everlasting Mathew Boggs 2007
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She then quickly called her father-in-law in Swansea and belatedly passed on news which had already been around the world.
WalesOnline - Home 2011
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