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Daughter - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Daughter : (noun)
1: a female human offspring; "her daughter cared for her in her
old age" [syn: girl] [ant: son, son]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Daughter : \Daugh"ter\, n.; pl. Daughters; obs. pl. Daughtren.
[OE. doughter, doghter, dohter, AS. dohtor, dohter; akin to
OS. dohtar, D. dochter, G. tochter, Icel. d[=o]ttir, Sw.
dotter, Dan. dotter, datter, Goth. da['u]htar,, OSlav.
d[u^]shti, Russ. doche, Lith. dukt[=e], Gr. qyga`thr, Zend.
dughdhar, Skr. duhit[.r]; possibly originally, the milker,
cf. Skr. duh to milk. [root]68, 245.]
1. The female offspring of the human species; a female child
of any age; -- applied also to the lower animals.
2. A female descendant; a woman.
This woman, being a daughter of Abraham. --Luke
xiii. 16.
Dinah, the daughter of Leah, which she bare unto
Jacob, went out to see the daughter of the land.
--Gen. xxxiv.
1.
3. A son's wife; a daughter-in-law.
And Naomi said, Turn again, my daughters. --Ruth. i.
11.
4. A term of address indicating parental interest.
Daughter, be of good comfort. --Matt. ix.
22.
Daughter cell (Biol.), one of the cells formed by cell
division. See Cell division, under Division.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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DAUGHTER. An immediate female descendant. See Son.
Based on Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [Bouvier_Law_Dictionary]:
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Daughter :
(Or "child", "successor") In a tree, a
node pointed to by a parent, i.e. another node closer to
the root node.
(1998-11-14)
Based on the Online Dictionary of Computing [Computer_Dictionary]:
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Daughter : This word, besides its natural and proper sense, is used to
designate, (1.) A niece or any female descendant (Gen. 20:12;
24:48; 28:6). (2.) Women as natives of a place, or as professing
the religion of a place; as, "the daughters of Zion" (Isa.
3:16), "daughters of the Philistines" (2 Sam. 1:20). (3.) Small
towns and villages lying around a city are its "daughters," as
related to the metropolis or mother city. Tyre is in this sense
called the daughter of Sidon (Isa. 23:12). (4.) The people of
Jerusalem are spoken of as "the daughters of Zion" (Isa. 37:22).
(5.) The daughters of a tree are its boughs (Gen. 49:22). (6.)
The "daughters of music" (Eccl. 12:4) are singing women.
Based on Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [Bible_Dictionary]:
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Daughter : Daughter: 1. A radioactive decay. 4. A cell resulting from cell division.
Based on Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [Bible_Dictionary]:
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Example Usage of Daughter |
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amgreetings: @vinoluci Happy birthday to your Daughter, glad to hear that it got taken care of. |
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DarrenMcCall: I'm about to have a Daughter! (soon, not right now) |
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DarrenMcCall: I'm about to have a Daughter! |
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