daughter
Americannoun
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a female child or person in relation to her parents.
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any female descendant.
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a person related as if by the ties binding daughter to parent.
daughter of the church.
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anything personified as female and considered with respect to its origin.
The United States is the daughter of the 13 colonies.
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Chemistry, Physics. an isotope formed by radioactive decay of another isotope.
adjective
noun
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a female offspring; a girl or woman in relation to her parents
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a female descendant
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a female from a certain country, etc, or one closely connected with a certain environment, etc
a daughter of the church
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archaic (often capital) a form of address for a girl or woman
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biology denoting a cell or unicellular organism produced by the division of one of its own kind
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physics (of a nuclide) formed from another nuclide by radioactive decay
Other Word Forms
- daughter-like adjective
- daughterhood noun
- daughterless adjective
- daughterlike adjective
- daughterliness noun
- daughterly adjective
Etymology
Origin of daughter
before 950; Middle English doughter, Old English dohtor; cognate with German Tochter, Greek thygátēr, Sanskrit duhitā
Example Sentences
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Union wages helped the 48-year-old single mother support her daughter through nursing school and her son through high school.
"I know when I was lying there, all I could think of is, 'I'm not ready to leave my daughter'," Dyer said, recalling how she woke up after falling 30ft down the sheer drop.
From BBC
The frantic search comes as Nancy’s daughter, NBC News anchor Savannah Guthrie, issued a second video appeal to the kidnappers.
From Los Angeles Times
"They were husbands, fathers, daughters, sisters, friends, loved ones," he added.
From Barron's
"I do have a small stuffed rabbit that belongs to my three-year-old daughter, and she actually has two of these because one was given as a gift," Meir, 48, told an online news conference.
From Barron's
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