Usually means: Husband of sibling, spouse's brother.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word brother-in-law:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. brother-in-law: Merriam-Webster
  2. brother-in-law: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. brother-in-law: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. brother-in-law, brother-in-law: Collins English Dictionary
  5. brother-in-law: Vocabulary.com
  6. brother-in-law: Wordnik
  7. brother-in-law: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. brother-in-law: Wiktionary
  9. brother-in-law: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. brother-in-law: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Brother-in-law, brother-in-law: Dictionary.com
  12. brother-in-law: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Brother-in-law: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Brother-in-law: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. brother-in-law: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. brother-in-law: Rhymezone
  17. brother-in-law: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. brother-in-law: FreeDictionary.org
  19. brother-in-law: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. brother-in-law: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. Brother-in-law: Legal dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. brother-in-law, brother-in-law: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. brother-in-law: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See brothers-in-law as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A male relative of one's generation, separated by one degree of marriage:
noun:  The brother of one's spouse.
noun:  The husband of one's sibling.
noun:  Co-brother-in-law: A male relative of one's generation, separated by two degrees of marriage:
noun:  The husband of the sibling of one's spouse.
noun:  (uncommon) The brother of the spouse of one's sibling.

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