'daughter-like
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daughter (ˈdɔːtə) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 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 Related: filial |
| 4. | archaic (often capital) a form of address for a girl or woman |
| —modifier | |
| 5. | biology denoting a cell or unicellular organism produced by the division of one of its own kind |
| 6. | physics (of a nuclide) formed from another nuclide by radioactive decay |
| Related: filial | |
| [Old English dohtor; related to Old High German tohter daughter, Greek thugatēr, Sanskrit duhitá] | |
| 'daughterhood | |
| —n | |
| 'daughterless | |
| —adj | |
| 'daughter-like | |
| —adj | |
| 'daughterliness | |
| —n | |
| 'daughterly | |
| —adj | |
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'daughter-like
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| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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