mother-in-law
noun
moth·er-in-law
ˈmə-t͟hər-ən-ˌlȯ 
ˈmət͟h-rən-,
ˈmə-t͟hərn-
plural mothers-in-law
ˈmə-t͟hər-zən-ˌlȯ
1
: the mother of one's spouse
2
archaic
: stepmother
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Stacy Clark said his mother-in-law, Patricia Penelton, died in the church.
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Michael Phillis, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2025
In the video, the expectant mother, 33, sat across from her mother-in-law with a platter of sandwiches on her lap, voicing the words of reality star Tammy Slaton.
—Kayla Grant, People.com, 16 May 2025
Tuesday, potential jurors gathered in a Northern California courthouse, more than an hour west of where Serafini is accused of shooting Gary Spohr and Wendy Wood Spohr, his father and mother-in-law, at their Lake Tahoe-area home in June 2021.
—Jon Paul Hoornstra, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 May 2025
Neither his wife nor his conspiracy theorist of a mother-in-law (The Penguin‘s Deidre O’Connell) approves of Joe’s newfound obsession about politics.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 16 May 2025
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Michael Phillis, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2025
In the video, the expectant mother, 33, sat across from her mother-in-law with a platter of sandwiches on her lap, voicing the words of reality star Tammy Slaton.
—Kayla Grant, People.com, 16 May 2025
Tuesday, potential jurors gathered in a Northern California courthouse, more than an hour west of where Serafini is accused of shooting Gary Spohr and Wendy Wood Spohr, his father and mother-in-law, at their Lake Tahoe-area home in June 2021.
—Jon Paul Hoornstra, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 May 2025
Neither his wife nor his conspiracy theorist of a mother-in-law (The Penguin‘s Deidre O’Connell) approves of Joe’s newfound obsession about politics.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 16 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for mother-in-law
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“Mother-in-law.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mother-in-law. Accessed 29 May. 2025.
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