daughterhood
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a word derived from
daughter.
daughternouna female child or person in relation to her parents.
Example Sentences
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The women, Cindy found, “traversed the terrains of motherhood, daughterhood and scholarhood” by being sure to care for themselves and one another.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2022
A book about creativity, daughterhood and how to uncouple the two.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 26, 2017
In your late 40s, early 50s, all the baggage of daughterhood and sisterhood just falls away.
From New York Times ● Jan. 7, 2017
It involves cultivating a sense of self that is has little to do with the motherhood, daughterhood, wifehood or friendship that society calls “womanhood.”
From Time ● Dec. 8, 2014
It was hard that she could not attain somewhat of her ideal of daughterhood.
From Tessa Wadsworth's Discipline A Story of the Development of a Young Girl's Life by Jennie M. Drinkwater