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daughter

[daw-ter]

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

Related forms

daugh·ter·less, adjective

daugh·ter·like, adjective

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The days of serious mother- daughter dresses are long gone.

He was there with his wife and teenage daughter attending a regional college fair.

Asar started life a few months ago as a social movement set up by the president's daughter to help the poor and needy.

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The days of serious mother- daughter dresses are long gone.

He was there with his wife and teenage daughter attending a regional college fair.

Asar started life a few months ago as a social movement set up by the president's daughter to help the poor and needy.

My five-year-old daughter gives that property a thumbs-up.

For the record, my daughter was describing why she had not yet found her shoe.

And then his wife and daughter died in an earthquake and his drawings were destroyed in a fire.

The following day he took his two sons and his daughter out to the barn, and off flew his nemeses.

His daughter should be a freedom fighter, not a princess.

Her husband was driving trucks to earn money, and their daughter and son had gone off to college.

For now, only the lawsuit that pit mother against daughter has been dropped.

Together, father and daughter watch the miller perform his ancient art.

We have all wood floors in our home and my daughter has severe asthma and my son is autistic and has no asthma.

In later years, his daughter described him as a friendly character, always full of fun and happiness.

Thankfully my daughter was a veterinary nurse, and knew right away to get the pup to the vet.

So, for the lab my daughter used a pre-made list of made-up genes, each one having traits labeled dominant or recessive.

But if you have only one or two children, the birth of a daughter may be at a son's expense.

M's granddaughter, the child of his oldest married daughter.

My daughter once got a poor grade on a science project because she disproved her own hypothesis.

They may do so symmetrically, thereby producing identical daughter cells, each of which resembles the mother cell.

In her spare time she enjoys riding pretend rockets with her son and singing showtunes with her daughter.

The more kinetic energy there is, the heavier these daughter particles can be.

Tell me a tale about a wicked stepmother who has a beautiful daughter who must work for her sisters.

In her culture it is probably better to have a son than a daughter.

My exposure to this is through an exchange program and the experiences of my daughter and a number of other kids.

Tell me a tale about a wicked stepmother who has a beautiful daughter who must work for little men.

However, the process of division stopped abruptly when between six and ten daughter cells had been created.

She bit my daughter in the face last night when my daughter was lying next to her and put her hand out to pet her.

She is scared to death of people shakes half to death, and cowers around me and my daughter.

In a new reality series, a challenging elderly parent moves in with her daughter.

When my daughter was younger, she used to favor me over her dad.

Soon they found themselves with a daughter and a son and barely enough income to make ends meet.

When my daughter was small, she liked me to entertain her friends.

Evewn though my daughter didn't need to take on load, she did so to lighten the load on.

The father rocks his daughter tenderly to sleep, as he explains the dangers of their.

The son will take care of the parents while the daughter goes to another family.

My four year-old daughter is a budding entomologist.

So attached was he to his own daughter that he raged against her engagement as an act of treachery.

Erratic driving was probably what often made my oldest daughter carsick except when she said she was riding with.

My daughter was sitting on my lap in the car in a gas station parking lot.

Even as the daughter of a king, her start in life was far from regal.

The daughter of a pharaoh seeks to establish herself as a peer to the men who preceded her.

Check out the amazing play kitchen a crafter created for her young daughter.

Networking with peers in the evenings typically means barely seeing her daughter and her husband, also a graduate.

One volunteer in particular has even returned four times, because she wants to bring her daughter and grandchildren.

At ten months, our tiny daughter stood up and started walking.

We tend to do a lot of afternoon shopping with our toddler daughter.

Eventually your daughter will turn four, and eventually you'll be able to look back and laugh.

Florence was simply a troublesome daughter who took an unseemly interest in hospitals and refused to marry.

Watching his daughter on a homemade ladder smoothing varnish over the red-and-yellow trim of.

My daughter enjoyed the game, so when the company approached us to review.

I've been told that it's usually the eldest daughter who becomes caretaker.

When they hit the atmosphere they create showers of daughter particles that.

When a daughter is born, a father sees a future financial burden, not a bonny face.

When my own kids were old enough to come up with their own imaginary friends, my daughter found one all on her own.

My daughter was the biter, unfortunately, at that age.

Aristocratic families were loth to stump up dowries for more than one daughter.

And apart from the giraffe-phobia from which my daughter suffered, the kids all loved the safari.

My daughter is coming up on her ninth birthday this weekend.

My spouse is reviving his long-dormant playing skills and our daughter is ecstatic.

R that sucksit's one of the main reasons my daughter decided not to teach.

My daughter was really little and my son was a baby, and neither of them wanted to sleep, so.

Really, you know your daughter best, and it's important to talk about what's going on at school.

It is amazing to me how fast my daughter is growing and learning.

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Collins

World English Dictionary

daughter (ˈdɔːtə)

—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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Word Origin & History

daughter

O.E. dohtor, from P.Gmc. *dochter, earlier *dhukter, from PIE *dhugheter (cf. Ger. tochter, Skt. duhitar-, Armenian dustr, O.C.S. dusti, Lith. dukte, Gk. thygater). The modern spelling evolved in southern England, 16c.

FOLDOC

Computing Dictionary

daughter definition

mathematics, data
(Or "child", "successor") In a tree, a node pointed to by a parent, i.e. another node closer to the root node.
(1998-11-14)

Easton

Bible Dictionary

Daughter definition

This word, besides its natural and proper sense, is used to designate, (1.) A niece or any female descendant (Gen. 20:12; 24:48; 28:6). (2.) Women as natives of a place, or as professing the religion of a place; as, "the daughters of Zion" (Isa. 3:16), "daughters of the Philistines" (2 Sam. 1:20). (3.) Small towns and villages lying around a city are its "daughters," as related to the metropolis or mother city. Tyre is in this sense called the daughter of Sidon (Isa. 23:12). (4.) The people of Jerusalem are spoken of as "the daughters of Zion" (Isa. 37:22). (5.) The daughters of a tree are its boughs (Gen. 49:22). (6.) The "daughters of music" (Eccl. 12:4) are singing women.

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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