daughter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: dôʹtər
ipa: /ˈdɔːtə(ɹ)/
enpr: dô'tər
ipa: /ˈdɔ.tɚ/
ipa: /ˈdɔ.t̬ɚ/
ipa: [ˈdɔ.ɾɚ]
enpr: dä'tər
ipa: /ˈdɑ.tɚ/
ipa: [ˈdɑ.ɾɚ]
enpr: dô'tŭ
ipa: /ˈdoːtɐ/
homophone: dotter (cot–caught merger)
rhymes: -ɔːtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: daughters
form: daughtren
form: dafter
Etymology: From Middle English doghter, doughter, from Old English dohtor (“daughter”), from Proto-West Germanic *dohter, from Proto-Germanic *duhtēr, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰugh₂tḗr.
Senses: examples: text: I already have a son, so I would like to have a daughter.
text: And ye ſhal eate the fleſh of your ſonnes, and the fleſh of your daughters ſhall ye eate.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Leviticus 26:29, column 1:
text: They discovered Weller had two daughters and a daughter-in-law in the same cemetery.
ref: 2021 September 24, Lauren M. Johnson and Christina Zdanowicz, “A gravestone missing for almost 150 years was being used as a marble slab to make fudge”, in CNN:
text: Finnley is the fourth daughter of Jason and Kylie Kelce, having already welcomed Wyatt, Elliotte and Bennett to the family.
ref: 2025 April 2, Ben Morse, “‘Whoop, there she is!’: Jason and Kylie Kelce announce birth of fourth daughter”, in CNN:
synonyms: girl
glosses: One’s female offspring.
examples: text: 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?
ref: 1950 October 23, C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (fiction):
antonyms: son
glosses: A female descendant.
glosses: A daughter language.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A nuclide left over from radioactive decay.
examples: text: 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).
ref: 2013, Daniela Isac, Charles Reiss, “Chapter 7, Some details of sentence structure”, in I-Language: An Introduction to Linguistics as Cognitive Science, 2nd edition, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 163:
text: 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.
ref: 2017, Yicheng Wu, “Chapter 2, The dynamics of language processing”, in The Interfaces of Chinese Syntax with Semantics and Pragmatics, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 17:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
syntax
glosses: A descendant.
raw_tags: of a parse tree
glosses: A female character of a creator.
glosses: A familiar address to a female person from an older or otherwise more authoritative person.
Hypernyms: child
Derived terms: captain's daughter
daughterboard
daughtercard
daughter card
daughter cell
daughter company
daughter cyst
daughtered
daughter from California syndrome
daughterfucker
daughterhood
daughtering
daughter-in-law
daughter isotope
daughterkin
daughter language
daughterless
daughterlike
daughterling
daughterly
daughterness
daughter nuclide
daughter of a bitch
daughter of Eve
daughter of God
daughter of joy
daughter of Sappho
daughter of the desert
daughter of the manse
daughter out
daughter-out-law
daughter sauce
daughtership
devil is beating his wife and marrying his daughter
Duke of Exeter's daughter
dwarf eldest daughter
farmer's daughter
father-daughter day
give one's daughter away
goddaughter
god-daughter
granddaughter
great-granddaughter
gunner's daughter
King's Daughters
kiss the gunner's daughter
marry the gunner's daughter
merdaughter
native daughter
only daughter
scavenger's daughter
Skeffington's daughter
Skevington's daughter
stepdaughter
Related terms: aunt
uncle
brother
sister
cousin