daughter
/ˈdoːtə/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: 5.07 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
One’s female offspring.
noun
A female descendant.
noun
noun
A nuclide left over from radioactive decay.
noun
A descendant.
noun
A familiar address to a female person from an older or otherwise more authoritative person.
Derogatory; Informal
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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?"
- "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)."
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.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: doghter, dohtor, *dohter, *duhtēr, *dʰugh₂tḗr
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈdoːtə/
- British English: /ˈdɔːtə/
Usage
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
Phrases
captain's daughter
daughter card
daughter cell
daughter company
daughter cyst
daughter from California syndrome
daughter-in-law
daughter isotope