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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.
daughter
/ ˈdɔːtə /
noun
- a female offspring; a girl or woman in relation to her parents
- a female descendant
- a female from a certain country, etc, or one closely connected with a certain environment, etc filial
a daughter of the church
- archaic.often capital a form of address for a girl or woman
adjective
- biology denoting a cell or unicellular organism produced by the division of one of its own kind
- physics (of a nuclide) formed from another nuclide by radioactive decay
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Derived Forms
- ˈdaughterly, adjective
- ˈdaughterliness, noun
- ˈdaughterhood, noun
- ˈdaughterless, adjective
- ˈdaughter-ˌlike, adjective
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Other Words From
- daughter·less adjective
- daughter·like adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of daughter1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of daughter1
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Example Sentences
Then came Bess Myerson, a daughter of Russian-Jewish immigrants who was raised in the Sholem Aleichem Houses in the Bronx.
Like most Jewish mothers, Myerson thought her daughter could do better.
This is about no longer accepting that—as so many others have stated—a family would rather have a dead son than a living daughter.
I noticed a picture of her daughter, who was my classmate, and out of curiosity visited her page.
Her adopted daughter tried to suffocate a younger biological sibling.
"The Smoker," and "Mother and Daughter," a triptych, are two of her principal pictures.
The Rev. Alonzo Barnard, seventy-one years of age, accompanied by his daughter, was present.
He reached forward and took her hands, and if Mrs. Vivian had come in she would have seen him kneeling at her daughter's feet.
Every word that now fell from the agitated Empress was balm to the affrighted nerves of her daughter.
She looked from the picture to her daughter, with a frightful glare, in their before mild aspect.
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