daughter
daughter Lexical Profile
daughter Game Scores & Validity
• noun
A female child or person in relation to her parents.
"Their eldest daughter recently graduated from medical school."
A female descendant or a woman considered as a product of a particular nation, culture, or historical era.
"The monument honors the brave sons and daughters of the republic who shaped its history."
Something, such as a biological cell, language, or radioactive nuclide, that is produced by or derived directly from an earlier parent source (often used attributively).
"During mitosis, a single parent cell divides to form two genetically identical daughter cells."
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Word Origin & Etymology
From Old English dohtor, of Germanic origin, ultimately tracing back to the Proto-Indo-European root *dhughəter-, making it a direct cognate with German Tochter, Greek thygatēr, and Sanskrit duhitr.