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mother-in-law
[ muhth-er-in-law ]
noun
- the mother of one's spouse.
mother-in-law
noun
- the mother of one's wife or husband
Word History and Origins
Origin of mother-in-law1
Example Sentences
Don’t get me wrong: Plenty of people lost everything in this fire, certainly more than my mother-in-law did.
Inspiration was all around him – biographers and critics have identified everyone and everything from his mother-in-law to Castle Park in Michigan as reincarnated in "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz."
He described the relative heights of all the people in his life who he’s taller than, including Munn, his even shorter mother-in-law and a nanny who is “negative one-feet tall.”
"I wasn't going to watch it but my mother-in-law and my mother were like 'come on, we’ll put it on, it's nice for her to see her daddy on telly'."
"We ought to drink a pint to my wonderful mother-in-law. She really loved her time here," the duchess said.
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