daughter

[daw-ter]

noun

1. a female child or person in relation to her parents.

2. any female descendant.

3. a person related as if by the ties binding daughter to parent.

   daughter of the church.

4. anything personified as female and considered with respect to its origin.

   The United States is the daughter of the 13 colonies.

5. Chemistry, Physics.,  an isotope formed by radioactive decay of another isotope.

adjective

1. Biology.,  pertaining to a cell or other structure arising from division or replication.

   daughter cell; daughter DNA.

daughter

/ ˈdɔːtə /

noun

1. a female offspring; a girl or woman in relation to her parents

2. a female descendant

3. a female from a certain country, etc, or one closely connected with a certain environment, etc

   a daughter of the church

4. archaic,  (often capital) a form of address for a girl or woman

1. biology denoting a cell or unicellular organism produced by the division of one of its own kind

2. physics (of a nuclide) formed from another nuclide by radioactive decay

Other Word Forms

• daughterly adjective
• daughterliness noun
• daughterhood noun
• daughter-like adjective
• daughterless adjective
• daughterlike adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of daughter¹

before 950; Middle English doughter, Old English dohtor; cognate with German Tochter, Greek thygátēr, Sanskrit duhitā

Word History and Origins

Origin of daughter¹

Old English dohtor; related to Old High German tohter daughter, Greek thugatēr, Sanskrit duhitá

Example Sentences

My husband and I plan to help our daughter with some of her wedding expenses.

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Cradling the lifeless body of his murdered daughter, Lear can do nothing but repeat the word “never” five times, the repetition driving home the irrevocable nature of loss.

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Aryn Kennedy, whose daughter attends Armstrong Middle School in the San Fernando Valley, recalls that “so many nights we spent an hour completing tedious, poorly designed math worksheets” on topics her daughter already understood.

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But as Beth became a teenager and a young adult, Natalie said she had not noticed any signs her daughter was using drugs to any significant extent.

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Mrs Wolff wrote to her daughter's psychiatrist shortly before the discharge, asking him to consult a specialist autism unit about how to reduce her risk of self-harm in the community.

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Related Words

• child 
• descendant 
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• girl 
• kid 
• offspring