daughter
Etymology
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Etymology
From Middle English doughter, doghter, from Old English dohtor, from Proto-West Germanic *dohter, from Proto-Germanic *duhtēr, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰugh₂tḗr.
Pronunciation- (RP) enPR: dôʹtər, IPA: /ˈdɔːtə(ɹ)/
- (America) enPR: dô'tər, IPA: /ˈdɔ.tɚ/, /ˈdɔ.t̬ɚ/, [ˈdɔ.ɾɚ]
- (cot-caught) enPR: dä'tər, IPA: /ˈdɑ.tɚ/, [ˈdɑ.ɾɚ]
- (Australia) enPR: dô'tŭ, IPA: /ˈdoːtɐ/
daughter (plural daughters)
- One’s female offspring.
- Synonyms: girl
- I already have a son, so I would like to have a daughter.
- A female descendant.
- Antonyms: son
- A daughter language.
- (physics) A nuclide left over from radioactive decay.
- (syntax, of a parse tree) A descendant.
- (by extension) A female character of a creator.
- (informal, uncommon, sometimes pejorative) A familiar address to a female person from an older or otherwise more authoritative person.
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