daughter
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/
Noun

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.
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