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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 yvlog Forms

  • 岹ܲt· adjective
  • 岹ܲt· adjective
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yvlog 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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yvlog 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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She does not agree with her daughter’s choice to stay at the monastery.

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Richard ended up living with his sister, her husband who was a miner, and their two young daughters.

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Her eldest daughter did some digging and found a copy of all the births registered in the local area on the day her mother was born.

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The source also told the magazine that Williams’ eldest, daughter Matilda, whom she had with late “Brokeback Mountain” co-star Heath Ledger, “has been doting on her younger siblings.”

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The dialogue he wrote for Benjamin in the final version of the script feels more naturalistic, he thinks, because it was directly referencing his daughter and son’s behaviors and reactions.

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