daughter

English Online Dictionary. What means daughter‎? What does daughter mean?

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: dôʹtər, IPA^(key): /ˈdɔːtə(ɹ)/
• (General American) enPR: dô'tər, IPA^(key): /ˈdɔ.tɚ/, /ˈdɔ.t̬ɚ/, [ˈdɔ.ɾɚ]
• (General American, cot–caught merger, Canada) enPR: dä'tər, IPA^(key): /ˈdɑ.tɚ/, [ˈdɑ.ɾɚ]
• (General Australian) enPR: dô'tŭ, IPA^(key): /ˈdoːtɐ/
• Homophone: dotter (in accents with the cot-caught merger)
• Hyphenation: daugh‧ter
• Rhymes: -ɔːtə(ɹ)

Noun

daughter (plural daughters or (archaic) daughtren)

1. One’s female offspring.

   Synonym: girl
2. A female descendant.

   Antonym: son
3. A daughter language.
4. (physics) A nuclide left over from radioactive decay.
5. (syntax, of a parse tree) A descendant.
6. (by extension) A female character of a creator.
7. (informal, uncommon, sometimes derogatory) A familiar address to a female person from an older or otherwise more authoritative person.

Alternative forms

• dafter (obsolete)

Antonyms

• (with regard to gender) son
• (with regard to ancestry) mother, father, parent

Hypernyms

• child

Derived terms

Descendants

• Kriol: doda

Translations

See also

• aunt, uncle
• brother, sister
• cousin

Further reading

• daughter on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• guardeth