dictionary definitions for "father-in-law"


From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  father-in-law
      n 1: the father of your spouse

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Father-in-law \Fa"ther-in-law`\, n.; pl. Fathers-in-law.
     The father of one's husband or wife; -- correlative to
     son-in-law and daughter-in-law.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     Note: A man who marries a woman having children already, is
           sometimes, though erroneously, called their
           father-in-law.
           [1913 Webster]


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