daughter-in-law:

(plural: daughters-in-law; pronunciation: the letters ‘ug’ are silent; the word opposite in meaning & male: ‘son-in-law’)

the wife of one’s son,

the Late Princess Diana (L) was the daughter-in-law of Queen Elizabeth II (R)

e.g.

My wife and I are proud to say that our daughter-in-law is more than a daughter to us!

Every mother of a man has problems with her daughter-in-law one time or the other in her life.

In almost all the cases of family fights, it is either the daughter-in-law ill-treating her mother-in-law, the mother of her husband, or the mother-in-law taking on her daughter-in-law, and in every case, it is the man that faces the brunt of the consequences!

It is found out that daughters-in-law who go out for work have less friction with the mothers of their husbands, mothers-in-law, than those who are house-wives that stay all the time at home.

For a useful article that gives us some important tips on how to move with one’s daughter-in-law, please click here, for an article that gives some good advice to daughters-in-law, please click here, and for an item of news that shows us how we come across this word in our daily reading, please click here.

Iswarya Bachchan, the daughter-in-law of Bachchan family

Language Usage: The plural of ‘daughter-in-law’ or ‘daughter in law’ is “daughters-in-law, and the possessive case form is (singular) “daughter-in-law‘s” and (plural) “daughters-in-law‘s. For example, ‘These are my two daughters-in-law.’ and ‘This is my daughter-in-law‘s car.’ & ‘These are my daughters-in-law‘s cars.’
Compare: brother-in-law    father-in-law   &    mother-in-law

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