daughter

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

One’s female offspring.
A female descendant.
A daughter language.
A nuclide left over from radioactive decay.
A descendant.
A female character of a creator.
A familiar address to a female person from an older or otherwise more authoritative person.

Pronunciation

dôʹtər /ˈdɔːtə/ En-uk-daughter.ogg dô'tər /ˈdɔ.tɚ/ [ˈdɔ.ɾɚ] dä'tər /ˈdɑ.tɚ/ [ˈdɑ.ɾɚ] en-us-daughter.ogg dô'tŭ /ˈdoːtɐ/ /ˈdɔtəɾ/

Word forms

daughter daughters daughtren 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.

Synonyms

girl

Antonyms

son mother father parent

Related words

aunt uncle brother sister cousin

Derived words

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 drag 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

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