Daughter Meaning
/ˈdɔːtə/Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounOne’s female offspring.
nounA female descendant.
Sentence Examples
Your daughter is not a child anymore.
Your daughter's on drugs.
We have two sons and a daughter.
CEFR Practice Quiz
His ____ is a talented musician who plays piano.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
Your ____ is not a child anymore.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English doghter, doughter, from Old English dohtor (“daughter”), from Proto-West Germanic *dohter, from Proto-Germanic *duhtēr, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰugh₂tḗr.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"And ye ſhal eate the fleſh of your ſonnes, and the fleſh of your daughters ſhall ye eate."
— 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Leviticus 26:29, column 1:
"They discovered Weller had two daughters and a daughter-in-law in the same cemetery."
— 2021 September 24, Lauren M. Johnson and Christina Zdanowicz, “A gravestone missing for almost 150 years was being used as a marble slab to make fudge”, in CNN:
"Finnley is the fourth daughter of Jason and Kylie Kelce, having already welcomed Wyatt, Elliotte and Bennett to the family."
— 2025 April 2, Ben Morse, “‘Whoop, there she is!’: Jason and Kylie Kelce announce birth of fourth daughter”, in CNN:
"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?"
— 1950 October 26, C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (fiction):
"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 (in an adjunct configuration)."
— 2013, Daniela Isac, Charles Reiss, “Chapter 7, Some details of sentence structure”, in I-Language: An Introduction to Linguistics as Cognitive Science, 2nd edition, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 163:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
His ____ is a talented musician who plays piano.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
Your ____ is not a child anymore.