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Daughter

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Noun

1. daughter, girl

a female human offspring

Example Sentences:
'her daughter cared for her in her old age'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Daughter

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noun
1. 
a female offspring; a girl or woman in relation to her parents
2. 
a female descendant
3. 
a female from a certain country, etc, or one closely connected with a certain environment, etc
a daughter of the church
▶ Related adjective: filial
4. (often capital) archaic
a form of address for a girl or woman
adjective
5. biology
denoting a cell or unicellular organism produced by the division of one of its own kind
6. physics
(of a nuclide) formed from another nuclide by radioactive decay

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Daughter

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noun
1. 
a girl or woman as she is related to either or both parents: sometimes also used of animals
2. 
a female descendant
3. 
a. 
a stepdaughter
b. 
an adopted daughter
c. 
a daughter-in-law
4. 
a female thought of as having been formed by some influence, as a child is by a parent
a daughter of the French Revolution
5. 
anything thought of as like a daughter in relation to its source or origin
colonies are daughters of the mother country
6.  Physics
an element that results immediately from the disintegration of a radioactive element

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Daughter

see synonyms of daughter
n.
1. One's female child.
2. A female descendant.
3. A woman considered as if in a relationship of child to parent: a daughter of the nation.
4. One that is personified or regarded as a female descendant: "Culturally Japan is a daughter of Chinese civilization" (Edwin O. Reischauer).
5. The immediate product of the radioactive decay of an element.
adj.
1. Possessing the characteristics of a daughter; having the relationship of a daughter.
2. Of or relating to a cell, organelle, or other structure produced by division or replication: daughter cell; daughter DNA.
3. Produced by or resulting from the decay of a radioactive element: daughter atom; daughter nuclide.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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