daughter

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a female human offspring

   Your daughter is caring for you.

2. 2
   noun

   One’s female offspring.

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

3. 3
   noun

   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?

4. 4
   noun

   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).

5. 5
   noun

   A daughter language.

6. 6
   noun

   A nuclide left over from radioactive decay.

7. 7
   noun

   A female character of a creator.

8. 8
   noun

   A familiar address to a female person from an older or otherwise more authoritative person.

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.