noun
daughter
DAW-tuh
noun
1
A person's female child.
"Their daughter just started her first year of university."
"He walked his daughter down the aisle at her wedding."
2
A language or product that descended or developed from an earlier one.
"Spanish and Italian are both daughter languages of Latin."
How to Use Daughter
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishA female child, or by extension something that "descends" from something older.
Common pairings
his daughter
a daughter language
daughter cells
Word Forms
daughters plural, daughtren plural
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Etymology
From Old English dohtor, an ancient word going all the way back to Proto-Indo-European — related to similar words in German (Tochter), Dutch, and many other Indo-European languages.