sister-in-law
English
Etymology
From Middle English suster-in-lawe; equivalent to sister + in + law.
Noun
sister-in-law (plural sisters-in-law)
Usage notes
The plural sister-in-laws is occasionally seen, but this is considered incorrect by most sources; see, for example, , despite being a common construction in American English.
Quotations
singular sister-in-law
- 1753, John Pringle, An Account of several Persons seized with the Goal-Fever, working in Newgate, in Philosophical Transactions, Vol. 48
- Some time after this, Mr. Breach the apothecary informed us, that he was again employ’d in Thomas Wilmot’s family; for that Elizabeth Marſhall, his ſiſter-in-law, after nurſing his wife, was taken ill of the ſame kind of fever, and deſired our aſſiſtance. This perſon we found in the ſame bed, and in the ſame condition, in which we had ſeen her ſiſter ſome time before...
- 1753, John Pringle, An Account of several Persons seized with the Goal-Fever, working in Newgate, in Philosophical Transactions, Vol. 48
plural form sisters-in-law
- 1874, Tseen-Han-shoo, History of the Heung-Noo in Their Relations with China, in The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 3
- Chang Hwuy, the master controller, went with Woo-sun troops to the right Luh-le’s court, captured the Shen-yu’s paternal relatives, sisters-in-law, ...
- 1874, Tseen-Han-shoo, History of the Heung-Noo in Their Relations with China, in The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 3
plural form sister-in-laws
- 1936, Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
- I have two sister-in-laws in Charleston and I know.
- 1936, Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
wife's sister
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husband's sister
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brother's wife
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wife's brother's wife
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husband's brother's wife
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