From Middle English doughter, doghter, from Old English dohtor, from Proto-West Germanic *dohter, from Proto-Germanic *duhtēr, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰugh₂tḗr.

• (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)

1. One’s female offspring.

   Synonyms: girl

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

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC ↗, Leviticus 26:29 ↗, column 1:

     And ye ſhal eate the fleſh of your ſonnes, and the fleſh of your daughters ſhall ye eate.

2. A female descendant.

   Antonyms: son

3. A daughter language.
4. (physics) A nuclide left over from radioactive decay.
5. (syntax, of a parse tree) A descendant.
6. (by extension) A female character of a creator.
7. (informal, uncommon, sometimes pejorative) A familiar address to a female person from an older or otherwise more authoritative person.

• (with regard to gender) son
• (with regard to ancestry) mother, father, parent

• French: fille
• German: Tochter
• Italian: figlia
• Portuguese: filha
• Russian: дочь
• Spanish: hija