Daughter meaning

dô'tər
A female descendant.
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The definition of a daughter is a female child that a mother gives birth to or adopts.

An example of a daughter is the little girl you gave birth to.

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One's female child.
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A woman considered as if in a relationship of child to parent.

A daughter of the nation.

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One that is personified or regarded as a female descendant.
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The immediate product of the radioactive decay of an element.
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Possessing the characteristics of a daughter; having the relationship of a daughter.
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Of or relating to a cell, organelle, or other structure produced by division or replication.

Daughter cell; daughter DNA.

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Produced by or resulting from the decay of a radioactive element.

Daughter atom; daughter nuclide.

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A girl or woman as she is related to either or both parents: sometimes also used of animals.
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A female descendant.
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A female thought of as having been formed by some influence, as a child is by a parent.

A daughter of the French Revolution.

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Anything thought of as like a daughter in relation to its source or origin.

Colonies are daughters of the mother country.

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An element that results immediately from the disintegration of a radioactive element.
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A stepdaughter.
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An adopted daughter.
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A daughter-in-law.
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One's female child.
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A female descendant.
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The immediate product of the radioactive decay of an element.
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Possessing the characteristics of a daughter; having the relationship of a daughter.
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Of or relating to a cell, organelle, or other structure produced by division or replication.

Daughter cell; daughter DNA.

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Produced by or resulting from the decay of a radioactive element.

Daughter atom; daughter nuclide.

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One’s female child.

I already have a son, so I would like to have a daughter.

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A female descendant.
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A daughter language.
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(physics) A nuclide left over from radioactive decay.
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Origin of daughter

From Middle English doughter, from Old English dōhtor, from Proto-Germanic *duhtēr (compare Scots dochter, West Frisian dochter, Dutch dochter, German Tochter, Swedish dotter), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰugh₂tḗr (compare Ancient Greek θυγάτηρ (thugatēr), Mudhili Gadaba duxtīr, Tocharian A ckācar, Tocharian B tkācer, Lithuanian duktė̃, Armenian դուստր (dustr), Persian دختر (doχtar), Sanskrit दुहितृ (duhitṛ)).

Sentence Examples

  • A daughter, I suppose?

  • Giddon and his daughter were already seated.

  • From the pretense of illness, from his daughter's distress, and by the embarrassed faces of Sonya and Marya Dmitrievna, the count saw clearly that something had gone wrong during his absence, but it was so terrible for him to think that anything disgraceful had happened to his beloved daughter, and he so prized his own cheerful tranquillity, that he avoided inquiries and tried to assure himself that nothing particularly had happened; and he was only dissatisfied that her indisposition delayed their return to the country.

  • My youngest daughter is left behind.

  • And he sat down again, paying no more attention to his daughter, who was reduced to tears.

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