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DAUGHTER-IN-LAW
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Irregular inflected form: daughters-in-law
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("daughter-in-law" is a kind of...):
in-law; relative-in-law (a relative by marriage)
Context examples:
Though her late conversation with her daughter-in-law had made her resolve on remaining at Norland no longer than was unavoidable, it had not produced the smallest effect on her in that point to which it principally tended.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)