daughter

Meaning

  1. One’s female offspring.
  2. A female descendant.
  3. A daughter language.
  4. A nuclide left over from radioactive decay.
  5. A descendant.
  6. (broadly) A female character of a creator.
  7. (derogatory, informal, sometimes, uncommon) A familiar address to a female person from an older or otherwise more authoritative person.

Opposite of
son
Synonyms

girl
A1
👧
son
A1
child
A1
🧒
offspring
C2
woman
A1
👩

young woman

maiden
C1

female child

my
A1
kid
A1
🧒
boy
A1
👦
virgin
B2
little girl
maid
B2
young lady
miss
A1
lassie
C2
tot
23k

young girl

niece
B2
colleen
C2
children
A1
female
B1
♀️
wench
C2
wife
A1
👰‍♀️
womankind
young
A1
apograph
baby girl
Jill
B2
Miss
A1

step-daughter

eldest daughter

second born daughter

female dependent

salientian

decay product

d.
C1

radioactive decay product

emancipatrix
translatrix
guardienne
mawther
babe
B1

pre-adolescent girl

baby
A1
👶
bairn
43k
batrachian
damsel
C2
descendant
C2
Translations

fille
👧
Tochter
hija
figlia
dochter
filha
filla

κόρη

filia
kız
👧

θυγατέρα

بنت

filha

keç
👧
Frequency

A1
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈdɔːtə(ɹ)/
Etymology

Inherited from Middle English
doughter
Inherited from Old English
dohtor
In summary

From Middle English doghter, doughter, from Old English dohtor (“daughter”), from Proto-West Germanic *dohter, from Proto-Germanic *duhtēr, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰugh₂tḗr.

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