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daughter (iou)



daughter noun & adjective.
[Old English dohtor = Old Frisian dochter, Old Saxon dohtar (Dutch dochter), Old High German tohter (German Tochter), Old Norse dottir, Gothic dauhtar, from Germanic from Indo-European, whence also Sanskrit duhit, Greek thugater.]
A. noun.
A female human being in relation to either or both of her parents. Also, a female offspring of an animal. OE.
Shakespeare King Lear The dear father would with his daughter speak.
A female descendant; a female member of a family, nation, etc. Also, a woman who is the spiritual or intellectual product of a specified person or thing. OE.
J. Wesley A daughter of affliction came to see me. Tennyson A daughter of our meadows.
a. Used as a term of affectionate address to a woman or girl, by an older or superior person. arch. OE.
Bible (AV): Matthew 9:22 But Iesus..said, Daughter, bee of good comfort, thy faith hath made thee whole.
b. A young woman. arch. LME.
A thing (usu. personified as female) as the product, reflex, or dependant of something else. ME.
Wordsworth Stern Daughter of the Voice of God! O Duty! Oxford English Dictionary Carthage the famous daughter of Tyre.
b. Physics. A nuclide formed by the disintegration of another. M20.
Phrases: daughter of Eve: see EVE noun1. Daughters of the American Revolution: a patriotic American women's society. Duke of Exeter's daughter an instrument of torture supposedly invented by a Duke of Exeter. GUNNER's daughter.
b. attrib. or as adjective. (Freq. with hyphen.) That is a daughter (esp. fig.). E17.
Word The passive could have existed in Proto-Indo-European, rather than in its daughter Languages.
Special collocations & comb.: daughter atom = sense 4b above. daughterboard a printed circuit board which contains subsidiary components of a microcomputer etc. and which may be connected to a motherboard. daughter cell Biology a cell formed by division or budding etc. of another. daughter element = sense 4b above. daughter-in-law, pl. daughters-in-law, (a) the wife of one's son; (b) a stepdaughter.
daughterhood noun (a) the condition of being a daughter; (b) daughters collectively: M19.
daughterless adjective LME.

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