Daughter
Daughter , noun
[Old English doughter, doghter, dohter, Anglo-Saxon dohtor, dohter; akin to Old Saxon dohtar, Dutch dochter, German tochter, Icelandic dōttir, Swedish dotter, Danish dotter, datter, Gothic daúhtar,, OSlav. dushti, Russ. doche, Lithuanian duktē, Greek qyga`thr, Zend. dughdhar, Sanskrit duhitr; possibly originally, the milker, compare Sanskrit duh to milk. r68, 245.]
1.
The female offspring of the human species; a female child of any age; -- applied also to the lower animals. [obsolete pl]
2.
A female descendant; a woman.
This woman, being a daughter of Abraham.
Dinah, the daughter of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob, went out to see the daughter of the land.
3.
A son's wife; a daughter-in-law.
And Naomi said, Turn again, my daughters.
4.
A term of address indicating parental interest.
Daughter, be of good comfort.
Collocations (1)
Daughter cell (Biology) , one of the cells formed by cell division. See Cell division, under Division.