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daughter

daugh·ter [ dáwtər ]


noun  (plural daugh·ters)
Definition:
 
1. female child: somebody's female child

2. woman or girl connected with place: a woman or girl considered as a product of a place or institution ( formal )
daughter of the church

3. product of something: something produced by or issuing from something else ( literary )
Truth is the daughter of time.

4. descendant: a woman or girl descendant ( literary )
a daughter of Eve

5. nuclear physics nuclide formed by radioactive decay: a nuclide formed from an element by radioactive decay



adjective 
Definition:
 
1. formed from something else: formed by or from a similar thing, usually retaining close links with it and sometimes remaining subordinate to it

2. being offspring: produced by a process of reproduction, replication, or division

[ Old English dohtor< Indo-European]

daugh·ter·less adjective
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