SON-IN-LAW (sons-in-law)

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

IPA (US):

Irregular inflected form: sons-in-law   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does son-in-law mean? 

• SON-IN-LAW (noun)
  The noun SON-IN-LAW has 1 sense:

1. the husband of your daughter

  Familiarity information: SON-IN-LAW used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SON-IN-LAW (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The husband of your daughter

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("son-in-law" is a kind of...):

in-law; relative-in-law (a relative by marriage)

 Context examples 

He was very uneasy; and but for the sense of his son-in-law's protection, would have been under wretched alarm every night of his life.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

“I admire all my three sons-in-law highly,” said he.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

It was seen by some farmer, and he told the miller, and the miller told the butcher, and the butcher's son-in-law left word at the shop.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

It deranged his best plan of domestic happiness, his best hope of keeping Sir Walter single by the watchfulness which a son-in-law's rights would have given.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Now was the time when her son-in-law's promise to his father might with particular propriety be fulfilled.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Ah! little did Mr. Spenlow imagine, when he sat opposite to me after dinner that day, with his pocket-handkerchief over his head, how fervently I was embracing him, in my fancy, as his son-in-law!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Thereupon Dummling asked to have her for his wife; but the king did not like the son-in-law, and made all manner of excuses and said he must first produce a man who could drink a cellarful of wine.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

He did not like the laziness and the disinclination for sober, legitimate work of this prospective son-in-law of his, for whose ideas he had no respect and of whose nature he had no understanding.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I defy even Sir William Lucas himself to produce a more valuable son-in-law.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

He had expected a very different son-in-law; and beginning to feel grave on Maria's account, tried to understand her feelings.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)