daughter

plural daughters · archaic plural daughtren · alternative obsolete dafter

1. One’s female offspring.

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

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

   1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Leviticus 26:29, column 1

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

   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

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

   2025 April 2, Ben Morse, “‘Whoop, there she is!’: Jason and Kylie Kelce announce birth of fourth daughter”, in CNN

   Synonyms: girl

2. 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?

   1950 October 28, C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (fiction)

   Antonyms: son

3. A daughter language.
4. natural sciencesA nuclide left over from radioactive decay.
5. human sciencesA descendant.

   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.

   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

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   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).

   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

6. broadlyA female character of a creator.
7. derogatoryinformalsometimesuncommonA familiar address to a female person from an older or otherwise more authoritative person.