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DAUGHTER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A female human offspring
Example:
her daughter cared for her in her old age
Synonyms:
Classified under:
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:
He has no wife nor daughter, and the young do not tell themselves to the young, but to the old, like me, who have known so many sorrows and the causes of them.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
It was their thought that Old Kinoos had lost the sight of his eyes from age; nor did Old Kinoos say otherwise, nor did I, his daughter.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
These men about me should have wives, and sisters, and daughters; then would they be capable of softness, and tenderness, and sympathy.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Adair’s mother had returned from Australia to undergo the operation for cataract, and she, her son Ronald, and her daughter Hilda were living together at 427, Park Lane.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
We would not influence your choice in any way; but you are our daughter, and we could not bear to see you make a marriage such as this.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
I want my daughters to be beautiful, accomplished, and good.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
A young woman opened the door, who proved to be Mrs. Tangey’s eldest daughter.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A son or daughter with genetic makeup inherited from the parent.
(Biological Child, NCI Thesaurus)
But Mrs. Bennet, who had calculated on her daughters remaining at Netherfield till the following Tuesday, which would exactly finish Jane's week, could not bring herself to receive them with pleasure before.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Whenever James goes over to see his daughter, you know, she will be hearing of us.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
