brothers-in-law
BRUTH-erz in law/ˈbɹʌðɚz ɪn ˌlɔ/UKBRUTH-uhz in law/ˈbɹʌðəz ɪn ˌlɔː/
- 1Plural of brother-in-law.
At the holidays, all three brothers-in-law argued about politics until midnight.
Her brothers-in-law helped move the furniture into the new house.
Note
The plural lands on the head of the compound, not its tail: the -s attaches to brother, giving brothers-in-law rather than brother-in-laws. One plural can also gather quite different relatives: a spouse's brothers, a sibling's husband, even the husband of a spouse's sister. So a phrase like her brothers-in-law may well mix people from both sides of a family.
brothers-in-law is a form of brother-in-law
brother-in-law, noun: The brother of one's spouse. Full entry
- Forms
- brother-in-lawbrothers-in-law plural
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