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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024daugh•ter /ˈdɔtɚ/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- the female child of a parent.
- a person related as if by the ties of daughter to parent:a true daughter of the revolution.
- anything personified as female and considered with respect to its origin:Latin and its daughter languages, Spanish, French, and Italian.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024daugh•ter (dô′tər),USA pronunciation n. - 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, Physicsan isotope formed by radioactive decay of another isotope.
adj. - Biochemistrypertaining to a cell or other structure arising from division or replication:daughter cell; daughter DNA.
- bef. 950; Middle English doughter, Old English dohtor; cognate with German Tochter, Greek thygátēr, Sanskrit duhitā
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: daughter /ˈdɔːtə/ n - 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
modifier - denoting a cell or unicellular organism produced by the division of one of its own kind
- (of a nuclide) formed from another nuclide by radioactive decay
Etymology: Old English dohtor; related to Old High German tohter daughter, Greek thugatēr, Sanskrit duhitáˈdaughterhood n ˈdaughterless adj ˈdaughterly adj |