daughter-in-law

From Middle English douȝter in lawe; equivalent to daughter +‎ -in-law.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɔːtə(ɹ)ɪnˌlɔː/

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daughter-in-law (plural daughters-in-law or (colloquial, nonstandard) daughter-in-laws)

2. The wife of one's child.
   • 2021 September 24, Lauren M. Johnson and Christina Zdanowicz, “A gravestone missing for almost 150 years was being used as a marble slab to make fudge”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     They discovered Weller had two daughters and a daughter-in-law in the same cemetery.

   • 2024 November 17, Howie Klein, “A Plurality Of American Voters Have Embraced Kakistocracy As Their Preferred Form Of Governance”, in DownWithTyranny‎^[2]:

     And we can watch how that plays out as Trump attempts to get his daughter-in-law, Lara, into the U.S. Senate.

• bahu (South Asia)

• brother-in-law
• father-in-law
• mother-in-law
• sister-in-law
• son-in-law