daughter-in-law

[daw-ter-in-law]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

plural

daughters-in-law

the wife of one's child.

daughter-in-law

noun

the wife of one's son

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Word History and Origins

Origin of daughter-in-law¹

First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English doughter in lawe; daughter, in, law ¹; from Middle English in-lawe “in law,” i.e., “a person within the regulation and protection of the law,” based on the prohibition by Roman civil law and, later, Christian canon law, of marriages within four degrees of consanguinity, i.e., up to and including first cousins

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"I was just their daughter-in-law - they just continued to love me."

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“�� makes him get the right to write any book?” said the couple’s daughter-in-law, Mary Moore, reached at her home in Southern California.

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Golfer Tiger Woods says he’s in a relationship with Vanessa Trump, the former daughter-in-law of President Trump who divorced Donald Trump Jr. in 2018.

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The 15-time major golf tournament champion took to social media Sunday to make that declaration in a post that also included two photos of himself and President Trump’s former daughter-in-law looking very cozy together.

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Golfer Tiger Woods has announced he is dating Vanessa Trump, the former daughter-in-law of US President Donald Trump.

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