daughter

[ daw-ter ]

/ ˈdɔ tər /

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noun

a female child or person in relation to her parents.

any female descendant.

a person related as if by the ties binding daughter to parent: daughter of the church.

anything personified as female and considered with respect to its origin: The United States is the daughter of the 13 colonies.

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

adjective

Biology. pertaining to a cell or other structure arising from division or replication: daughter cell; daughter DNA.

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Origin of daughter

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

OTHER WORDS FROM daughter

daugh·ter·less, adjectivedaugh·ter·like, adjective

Words nearby daughter

daud, Daudet, dauerschlaf, Daugava, Daugavpils, daughter, daughter cell, daughter cyst, daughter-in-law, daughter language, daughterly

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How to use daughter in a sentence

Clark confirmed Ingalls’ daughter was the only returning cheerleader cut this season, but said freshmen trying out for the first time were also cut.
School Sports Became ‘Clubs’ Amid the Pandemic – Now Two Coaches Are Out|Ashly McGlone|September 17, 2020|Voice of San Diego
Planned for nearly 20 years—a pact between my mother and her college roommate to each name their first daughter Kate.
Dawn of the Heliocene - Issue 90: Something Green|Summer Praetorius|September 16, 2020|Nautilus
One parent of two teenagers involved in the effort, Robert Jason Noonan, said his 16- and 17-year-old daughters were being paid by Turning Point to push “conservative points of view and values” on social media.
Pro-Trump youth group enlists teens in secretive campaign likened to a ‘troll farm,’ prompting rebuke by Facebook and Twitter|Isaac Stanley-Becker|September 15, 2020|Washington Post
So what Tyler did was get out ahead of being shunted to secretaries and daughters by confused investors, the way Jenn Hyman had.
‘How I Built This’ host Guy Raz on insights from some of the world’s most famous entrepreneurs|Rachel King|September 15, 2020|Fortune

By the time Pure went public in 1995, my wife and I had been married for four years and we had one young daughter.
What if Your Company Had No Rules? (Bonus Episode)|Maria Konnikova|September 12, 2020|Freakonomics
Then came Bess Myerson, a daughter of Russian-Jewish immigrants who was raised in the Sholem Aleichem Houses in the Bronx.
Why Was Bess Myerson the First and Last Jewish Miss America?|Emily Shire|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Like most Jewish mothers, Myerson thought her daughter could do better.
Why Was Bess Myerson the First and Last Jewish Miss America?|Emily Shire|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST
This is about no longer accepting that—as so many others have stated—a family would rather have a dead son than a living daughter.
Dear Leelah, We Will Fight On For You: A Letter to a Dead Trans Teen|Parker Molloy|January 1, 2015|DAILY BEAST
I noticed a picture of her daughter, who was my classmate, and out of curiosity visited her page.
50 Shades of Iran: The Mullahs’ Kinky Fantasies about Sex in the West|IranWire, Shima Sharabi|January 1, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Her adopted daughter tried to suffocate a younger biological sibling.
Judge: Rehoming Kids Is Trafficking|Tina Traster|December 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
"The Smoker," and "Mother and Daughter," a triptych, are two of her principal pictures.
Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D.|Clara Erskine Clement
The Rev. Alonzo Barnard, seventy-one years of age, accompanied by his daughter, was present.
Among the Sioux|R. J. Creswell
He reached forward and took her hands, and if Mrs. Vivian had come in she would have seen him kneeling at her daughter's feet.
Confidence|Henry James
Every word that now fell from the agitated Empress was balm to the affrighted nerves of her daughter.
The Pastor's Fire-side Vol. 3 of 4|Jane Porter
She looked from the picture to her daughter, with a frightful glare, in their before mild aspect.
The Pastor's Fire-side Vol. 3 of 4|Jane Porter

British Dictionary definitions for daughter

daughter

/ (ˈdɔːtə) /

noun

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

a female descendant

a female from a certain country, etc, or one closely connected with a certain environment, etca daughter of the church Related adjective: filial

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

adjective

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

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

Derived forms of daughter

daughterhood, noundaughterless, adjectivedaughter-like, adjectivedaughterliness, noun

daughterly, adjective

Word Origin for daughter

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

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