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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

/ ˈɔːə /

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 filial

    a daughter of the church

  4. archaic.
    often capital a form of address for a girl or woman
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

adjective

  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
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈ岹ܲٱ, adjective
  • ˈ岹ܲٱԱ, noun
  • ˈ岹ܲٱǴǻ, noun
  • ˈ岹ܲٱ-ˌ, adjective
  • ˈ岹ܲٱ, adjective
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • 岹ܲt· adjective
  • 岹ܲt· adjective
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of daughter1

before 950; Middle English doughter, Old English dohtor; cognate with German Tochter, Greek ٳⲵáŧ, Sanskrit ܳ󾱳
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of daughter1

Old English dohtor; related to Old High German tohter daughter, Greek ٳܲŧ, Sanskrit ܳ󾱳á
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Example Sentences

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As he spends time at his Connecticut home with his three daughters and six grandchildren, he told People, he has experienced “a reality of mortality.”

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Before the fire, when she was planning her daughter’s baby shower, Garcia managed to scan some photos of her parents and grandparents.

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The daughter of the Conservative MP David Amess whose father was stabbed to death at a constituency surgery called for Kneecap to apologise.

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There are also fears about whether their sons, daughters and grandchildren can get a job as millions of college graduates are struggling to find work.

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In Yarrabah, Ms Andrews becomes suddenly tearful, telling how her two daughters, studying at university in Brisbane, were intimidated and got "so many racist remarks" after the vote.

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