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Princeton's WordNet

  1. father-in-lawnoun

    the father of your spouse

Wiktionary

  1. father-in-lawnoun

    One's spouse's father.

Wikipedia

  1. father-in-law

    A parent-in-law is a person who has a legal affinity with another by being the parent of the other's spouse. Many cultures and legal systems impose duties and responsibilities on persons connected by this relationship. A person is a child-in-law to the parents of the spouse, who are in turn also the parents of those sibling-in-laws (if any) who are siblings of the spouse (as opposed to spouses of siblings). Together, the members of this family affinity group are called the in-laws.

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  1. father-in-law

    A father-in-law is the father of a person's spouse.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Father-in-lawnoun

    the father of one's husband or wife; -- correlative to son-in-law and daughter-in-law

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of father-in-law in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of father-in-law in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of father-in-law in a Sentence

  1. Donna Schuller:

    My father-in-law passed away peacefully early this morning. He was a great Dad and a great man of God.

  2. Stephen Krein:

    I happened to be talking to my father-in-law that day and I mentioned Steve and Unity were down there [in D.C.], [Biden] knew about StartUp Health and was a big fan of it. He asked for Steve's number and said, 'I have to get them up here to talk with Barack.' The Secret Service came and got Steve and Unity and brought them to the Oval Office.

  3. Dick Clark:

    Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?

  4. Dick Clark:

    Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law

  5. Jared Kushner:

    You know, you do a really good job on TV, i don't think your father-in-law would agree.


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