Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

native daughter

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.54 in modern English

Syllables: na-tive -daugh-ter
IPA

22

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

4

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A woman born in a specified place.

Example Sentences

"The second piece, in which this native daughter recalls her school days and literary debut in The Mirror, is excerpted from Hurst's autobiography, Anatomy of Me (1958)."
"Her grandson, Peter Rive, received a certificate of honor from Walter Momper, president of the Berlin Parliament, and in his laudatio the city mayor Klaus Wowereit expressed his pride about the achievements of Berlin's most famous native daughter."
"These contradictions set Oakland apart from other major metropolises and have inspired sentiments of nostalgic disappointments (referring to native daughter Gertrude Stein's musings of "there's no there, there" as cited in McClintock) [...]"

Inflected Forms

native daughters (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

native son

Questions

What does native daughter mean?: A woman born in a specified place.

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