Daughter

/ˈdɔːtə/ · noun

Meaning

One’s female offspring..

Definitions by Sense

1. One’s female offspring.
2. A female descendant.
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 derogatory) A familiar address to a female person from an older or otherwise more authoritative person.

Example Sentences

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

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

They discovered Weller had two daughters and a daughter-in-law in the same cemetery.

Finnley is the fourth daughter of Jason and Kylie Kelce, having already welcomed Wyatt, Elliotte and Bennett to the family.

Daughter of Eve from the far land of Spare Oom where eternal summer reigns around the bright city of War Drobe, how would it be if you came and had tea with me?

We have distinguished two types of situations from the point of view of the placement of the obligatory X constituent within the phrase XP: one in which X is a daughter of XP, and one in which X is not a daughter of XP, but a daughter of one of the constituents of XP (in an adjunct configuration).

Following the conventional pattern, the argument daughter of a node is assigned the index n0 and placed on the left side, and the functor daughter, the index n1, is placed on the right side.

Synonyms for daughter

Antonyms for daughter

Related Words

Word Forms

• daughters
• daughtren
• dafter

Usage Notes

Choose a synonym only when it preserves the intended meaning, tone, and grammar of the full sentence.

Practice and Learn More

Frequently Asked Questions