Etimology
From Middle English doughter, doghter, from Old English dohtor (“daughter”), from Proto-West Germanic *dohter, from Proto-Germanic *duhtēr, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰugh₂tḗr.
noun
daughter (plural daughters or (archaic) daughtren)
One’s female offspring.
A female descendant.
A daughter language.
(physics) A nuclide left over from radioactive decay.
(syntax, of a parse tree) A descendant.
(by extension) A female character of a creator.
(informal, uncommon, sometimes derogatory) A familiar address to a female person from an older or otherwise more authoritative person.
Examples
Synonym: girl
I already have a son, so I would like to have a daughter.
And ye ſhal eate the fleſh of your ſonnes, and the fleſh of your daughters ſhall ye eate.
Antonym: son
Daughter of Eve from the far land of Spare Oom where eternal summer reigns around the bright city of War Drobe, how would it be if you came and had tea with me?
We have distinguished two types of situations from the point of view of the placement of the obligatory X constituent within the phrase XP: one in which X is a daughter of XP, and one in which X is not a daughter of XP, but a daughter of one of the constituents of XP .
Following the conventional pattern, the argument daughter of a node is assigned the index n0 and placed on the left side, and the functor daughter, the index n1, is placed on the right side.
Related words
antonyms
(with regard to gender) son
(with regard to ancestry) mother, father, parent
hypernyms
child