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daugh·ter (dôt′ər)

noun

  1. a girl or woman as she is related to either or both parents: sometimes also used of animals
  2. a female descendant
    1. a stepdaughter
    2. an adopted daughter
    3. a daughter-in-law
  4. a female thought of as having been formed by some influence, as a child is by a parent a daughter of the French Revolution
  5. anything thought of as like a daughter in relation to its source or origin colonies are daughters of the mother country
  6. Physics an element that results immediately from the disintegration of a radioactive element

Etymology: ME doughter < OE dohtor, akin to Goth dauhtar, Ger tochter < IE base *dhugheter > Sans duhitár, Gr thugatēr

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daughter Synonyms

daughter

n.

female child, girl, offspring, descendant, stepdaughter, heiress, female dependent, infant, her mother's daughter*, apple of her father's eye*; see also child, girl 1.


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daughter Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • marry: Their next daughter married John Murdoch, merchant in Glasgow, and had issue.

Preposition: into

  • slavery: Q. I would like to sell my daughter into slavery, as it suggests in Exodus 21:7.

Adjective modifier

  • eldest: I went to primary school with his eldest daughter Maureen.

Modifies a noun

  • Isabella: He works from his home in Oxfordshire where he lives with his wife Laura, daughter Isabella and dog Pepper.

Noun used with modifier

  • O: This is my lover, this my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.

Possessives

  • wedding: I bought a £ 200 display kit from you a couple of weeks ago for my daughter's wedding last Saturday.

Possessives

  • vicar: And one young man has seen the vicar's daughter in the cemetary at midnight, dancing with the devil.

Preposition: of

  • king: The truce was cemented by a marriage between Richard and Isabel of France, daughter of the French king, now Charles VI.
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daughter quotes

He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me. He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.

-Bible (NewTestament)

Then the wet, winding roads, Brown bogs with black water; And my thoughts on white ships And the King o' Spain's daughter.

-Colum, Padraic

Don't put your daughter on the stage, Mrs Worthington, Don't put your daughter on the stage.

-Coward, Sir Noe«  l Peirce

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