daughter
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Definition of daughter
7 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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One’s female offspring.
“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.”
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noun
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One’s female offspring.
“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.”
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A female descendant.
“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?”
- A daughter language.
- A nuclide left over from radioactive decay.
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A descendant.
“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.”
- (broadly)A female character of a creator.
- (derogatory, informal, sometimes, uncommon)A familiar address to a female person from an older or otherwise more authoritative person.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
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.
Words you can make from daughter
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9 words5-letter words
40 words- AUGHT 9 pts
- DEATH 9 pts
- GARTH 9 pts
- GERAH 9 pts
- GHAUT 9 pts
- HARED 9 pts
- HATED 9 pts
- HEARD 9 pts
- HUGER 9 pts
- TEUGH 9 pts
- EARTH 8 pts
- HATER 8 pts
- HAUTE 8 pts
- HEART 8 pts
- RATHE 8 pts
- AGUED 7 pts
- DURAG 7 pts
- GATED 7 pts
- GRADE 7 pts
- GUARD 7 pts
- RAGED 7 pts
- URGED 7 pts
- ARGUE 6 pts
- AUGER 6 pts
- DATER 6 pts
- DERAT 6 pts
- GATER 6 pts
- GRATE 6 pts
- GREAT 6 pts
- RATED 6 pts
- RETAG 6 pts
- RUGAE 6 pts
- TARED 6 pts
- TARGE 6 pts
- TEGUA 6 pts
- TERGA 6 pts
- TRADE 6 pts
- TREAD 6 pts
- TRUED 6 pts
- URATE 5 pts
4-letter words
71 words- AHED 8 pts
- ARGH 8 pts
- AUGH 8 pts
- GHAT 8 pts
- HADE 8 pts
- HAED 8 pts
- HARD 8 pts
- HEAD 8 pts
- HERD 8 pts
- HUED 8 pts
- HUGE 8 pts
- THUD 8 pts
- THUG 8 pts
- EATH 7 pts
- HAET 7 pts
- HARE 7 pts
- HART 7 pts
- HATE 7 pts
- HAUT 7 pts
- HEAR 7 pts
- HEAT 7 pts
- HURT 7 pts
- RATH 7 pts
- RHEA 7 pts
- RUTH 7 pts
- TAHR 7 pts
- THAE 7 pts
- THRU 7 pts
- AGED 6 pts
- DRAG 6 pts
- DREG 6 pts
- DRUG 6 pts
- EGAD 6 pts
- GAED 6 pts
- GAUD 6 pts
- GRAD 6 pts
- GUDE 6 pts
- AGER 5 pts
- AGUE 5 pts
- AREG 5 pts
- DARE 5 pts
- DART 5 pts
- DATE 5 pts
- DAUT 5 pts
- DEAR 5 pts
- DRAT 5 pts
- DUET 5 pts
- DURA 5 pts
- DURE 5 pts
- GATE 5 pts
- GAUR 5 pts
- GEAR 5 pts
- GETA 5 pts
- GRAT 5 pts
- GRUE 5 pts
- GUAR 5 pts
- RAGE 5 pts
- READ 5 pts
- RUDE 5 pts
- RUED 5 pts
- RUGA 5 pts
- TEGU 5 pts
- TRAD 5 pts
- TRUG 5 pts
- TURD 5 pts
- URGE 5 pts
- RATE 4 pts
- TARE 4 pts
- TEAR 4 pts
- TRUE 4 pts
- UREA 4 pts
3-letter words
57 words- DAH 7 pts
- DUH 7 pts
- EDH 7 pts
- HAD 7 pts
- HAG 7 pts
- HUG 7 pts
- UGH 7 pts
- ETH 6 pts
- HAE 6 pts
- HAT 6 pts
- HER 6 pts
- HET 6 pts
- HUE 6 pts
- HUT 6 pts
- RAH 6 pts
- THE 6 pts
- DAG 5 pts
- DUG 5 pts
- GAD 5 pts
- GED 5 pts
- AGE 4 pts
- DUE 4 pts
- ERG 4 pts
- GAE 4 pts
- GAR 4 pts
- GAT 4 pts
- GET 4 pts
- GUT 4 pts
- RAD 4 pts
- RAG 4 pts
- RED 4 pts
- REG 4 pts
- RUG 4 pts
- TAD 4 pts
- TAG 4 pts
- TED 4 pts
- TEG 4 pts
- TUG 4 pts
- URD 4 pts
- ARE 3 pts
- ART 3 pts
- ATE 3 pts
- EAR 3 pts
- EAT 3 pts
- EAU 3 pts
- ERA 3 pts
- ETA 3 pts
- RAT 3 pts
- RET 3 pts
- RUE 3 pts
- RUT 3 pts
- TAE 3 pts
- TAR 3 pts
- TAU 3 pts
- TEA 3 pts
- UTA 3 pts
- UTE 3 pts
2-letter words
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