DAUGHTER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does daughter mean? 

• DAUGHTER (noun)
  The noun DAUGHTER has 1 sense:

1. a female human offspring

  Familiarity information: DAUGHTER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DAUGHTER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A female human offspring

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

daughter; girl

Context example:

her daughter cared for her in her old age

Hypernyms ("daughter" is a kind of...):

female offspring (a child who is female)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "daughter"):

mother's daughter (a daughter who is favored by and similar to her mother)

Antonym:

son (a male human offspring)

Derivation:

daughterly (befitting a daughter)

 Context examples 

It is very fit they should have daughters' shares; and I am sure he has always been a very kind, liberal father to me.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

When it was finally Otis’ turn to see Santa, my daughter, Chrissie, holding Otis’ hand, said to Santa, “This is Otis.”

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Then he was brought before the king, and the king said, “You shall never have my daughter unless in eight days you dig away the hill that stops the view from my window.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Indeed! Then she is not your daughter?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

My master made his daughter Glumdalclitch ride behind him.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Then, opening the first door before her, which happened to be the right, she immediately found herself in the drawing-room with General Tilney, his son, and daughter.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

If left unrepaired, base pair miscoding can result in mutation to one of the daughter DNA duplexes.

(Base Pair Miscoding, NCI Thesaurus)

His daughters absent and herself not consulted!

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

McCarthy had one son, a lad of eighteen, and Turner had an only daughter of the same age, but neither of them had wives living.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Give me breath enough, said I to my daughter Minnie, and I'll find passages, my dear.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)