daughter-in-law
/ˈdɔːtə(ɹ)ɪnˌlɔː/
daughter-in-law noun: the wife of one's child.
Noun
daughter-in-law (plural daughters-in-law or (colloquial, nonstandard) daughter-in-laws)
- The wife of one's child.
- For I am come to ſet a man at variance* againſt his father, ⁊ the daughter againſt her mother, and the daughter in law againſt her mother in law.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 10:35
- They discovered Weller had two daughters and a daughter-in-law in the same cemetery.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
- Synonyms:
- bahu
daughter-in-law meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
daughter-in-law in Hindi
- wife of one's child
- बहू bahū
daughter-in-law in Tamil
- wife of one's child
- மருமகள் marumakaḷ
daughter-in-law in Marathi
- wife of one's child
- सून sūn
daughter-in-law in Urdu
- wife of one's child
- بَہُو bahū
More languagesFewer languages
- daughter-in-law in Bengali
- বউ bou
- daughter-in-law in Telugu
- కోడలు kōḍalu
- daughter-in-law in Malayalam
- മരുമകൾ marumakaḷ
- daughter-in-law in Kannada
- ಸೊಸೆ sose
- daughter-in-law in Punjabi
- ਨੂੰਹ nū̃h, نُون٘ہہ nūṉh
- daughter-in-law in Gujarati
- વહુ vahu
- daughter-in-law in Odia
- ବଧୂ badhu
- daughter-in-law in Sanskrit
- स्नुषा snuṣā
- daughter-in-law in Assamese
- বোৱাৰী büari
- daughter-in-law in Pashto
- ناوې, نږور
- daughter-in-law in Tagalog
- babaeng manugang
- daughter-in-law in Arabic
- كَنَّة kanna, زَوْجَة اَلاِبْن zawjat al-ibn
- daughter-in-law in Malay
- menantu perempuan, menantu
- daughter-in-law in Indonesian
- menantu perempuan, menantu
- daughter-in-law in Persian
- سنه sonoh, سنهار sonhâr, عروس 'arus
- daughter-in-law in Thai
- ลูกสะใภ้ lûuk-sà-pái
- daughter-in-law in Vietnamese
- con dâu, dâu
- daughter-in-law in Myanmar
- ချွေးမ hkywe:ma.
- Kashmiri
- نۄش nọś
Synonyms of daughter-in-law
Forms of daughter-in-law
| plural | daughters-in-law |
|---|---|
| plural (nonstandard, colloquial) | daughter-in-laws |
Origin of daughter-in-law
From Middle English doghter in lawe; equivalent to daughter + -in-law.
Questions about daughter-in-law
- What does daughter-in-law mean?
- Daughter-in-law means the wife of one's child.
- What is daughter-in-law in Hindi?
- Daughter-in-law in Hindi is बहू (bahū). See Daughter-in-law meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is daughter-in-law?
- Daughter-in-law is a noun.
- How do you pronounce daughter-in-law?
- Daughter-in-law is pronounced /ˈdɔːtə(ɹ)ɪnˌlɔː/.
- What is the plural of daughter-in-law?
- The plural of daughter-in-law is daughters-in-law.
Words near daughter-in-law in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: daughter-in-law (page history and authors); বউ (Bengali) (page history and authors); ಸೊಸೆ (Kannada) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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