daughter
[ daw-ter ]
/ ˈdɔ tər /
noun
a female child or person in relation to her parents.
any female descendant.
a person related as if by the ties binding daughter to parent: daughter of the church.
anything personified as female and considered with respect to its origin: The United States is the daughter of the 13 colonies.
Chemistry, Physics.
an isotope formed by radioactive decay of another isotope.
adjective
Biology.
pertaining to a cell or other structure arising from division or replication: daughter cell; daughter DNA.
Origin of daughter
before 950; Middle English
doughter, Old English
dohtor; cognate with German
Tochter, Greek
thygátēr, Sanskrit
duhitā
OTHER WORDS FROM daughter
daugh·ter·less, adjective daugh·ter·like, adjectiveWords nearby daughter
daud,
daudet,
dauerschlaf,
daugava,
daugavpils,
daughter,
daughter cell,
daughter cyst,
daughter language,
daughter star,
daughter-in-law
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British Dictionary definitions for daughter
daughter
/ (ˈdɔːtə) /
noun
a female offspring; a girl or woman in relation to her parents
a female descendant
a female from a certain country, etc, or one closely connected with a certain environment, etc
a daughter of the church Related adjective: filial
(often capital) archaic
a form of address for a girl or woman
adjective
biology
denoting a cell or unicellular organism produced by the division of one of its own kind
physics
(of a nuclide) formed from another nuclide by radioactive decay
Derived forms of daughter
Word Origin for daughter
Old English
dohtor; related to Old High German
tohter daughter, Greek
thugatēr, Sanskrit
duhitá