Daughter

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: daugh=ter

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Daughter, n.
1 a girl or woman in relation to either or both of her parents.
2 a female descendant.
3 (foll. by of) a female member of a family, nation, etc.
4 (foll. by of) a woman who is regarded as the spiritual descendant of, or as spiritually attached to, a person or thing.
5 a product or attribute personified as a daughter in relation to its source (Fortune and its daughter Confidence).
6 Physics a nuclide formed by the radioactive decay of another.
7 Biol. a cell etc. formed by the division etc. of another.

Idiom

daughter-in-law (pl. daughters-in-law) the wife of one's son.

Derivative

daughterhood n. daughterly adj.

Etymology

OE dohtor f. Gmc

THESAURUS

Daughter

aunt, auntie, blood brother, brethren, brother, bub, bubba, bud, buddy, child, country cousin, cousin, cousin once removed, cousin twice removed, descendant, father, first cousin, foster brother, foster child, frater, grandchild, granddaughter, grandnephew, grandniece, grandson, granduncle, great-aunt, great-uncle, half brother, heiress, kid brother, mother, nephew, niece, nuncle, nunks, nunky, offspring, scion, second cousin, sis, sissy, sister, sister-german, sistern, son, son and heir, sonny, stepbrother, stepchild, stepdaughter, stepsister, stepson, unc, uncle, uncs, uterine brother

ROGET THESAURUS

Daughter

Posterity

N posterity, progeny, breed, issue, offspring, brood, litter, seed, farrow, spawn, spat, family, grandchildren, heirs, great-grandchild, child, son, daughter, butcha, bantling, scion, acrospire, plumule, shoot, sprout, olive-branch, sprit, branch, off-shoot, off- set, ramification, descendant, heir, heiress, heir-apparent, heir- presumptive, chip off the old block, heredity, rising generation, straight descent, sonship, line, lineage, filiation, primogeniture, filial, diphyletic, the child is father of the man, the fruit doesn't fall far from the tree, like father, like son.