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daughter

/ˈdɔːtə/ UK
/ˈdoːtə/ Australia, British, New Zealand
/ˈdɔ.tɚ/ US
[ˈdɔ.ɾɚ] US
/ˈdɑ.tɚ/ US, cot caught merger
[ˈdɑ.ɾɚ] US, cot caught merger
/ˈdɔtəɾ/ Scotland

Sounds like dotter (cot–caught merger) · Rhymes with -ɔːtə(ɹ)

Where it comes from

From Middle English doghter, doughter, from Old English dohtor (“daughter”), from Proto-West Germanic *dohter, from Proto-Germanic *duhtēr, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰugh₂tḗr.

noun daughters · daughtren · dafter

One’s female offspring. I already have a son, so I would like to have a daughter.
Similar: girl
A female descendant. 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?
Opposite: son
A daughter language.
A nuclide left over from radioactive decay.
of a parse tree A descendant. 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).
broadly A female character of a creator.
derogatory, informal, sometimes, uncommon A familiar address to a female person from an older or otherwise more authoritative person.

Opposite: son, mother, father, parent

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: girl, daughter-in-law, granddaughter, sister, son, father, spinster, maiden, filiation, women, maid, damsel, lady, woman, her, bride

noun

Opposite: son, mother, father, parent

Translations

Every language

noun female offspring

Español	hija
한국어	딸 ttal, 따님 ttanim
日本語	娘 musume, お嬢さん ojōsan, いと ito
中文	女兒 /女儿 nǚ'ér, 閨女 /闺女 guīnü, 姑娘 gūniang
हिन्दी	बेटी beṭī, लड़की laṛkī, पुत्री putrī, दुख़्तर duxtar
Kiswahili	binti
Português	filha
Français	fille
Deutsch	Tochter
Italiano	figlia
Ελληνικά	κόρη kóri, θυγατέρα thygatéra
Română	fiică
Русский	дочь dočʹ, до́чка dóčka, дщерь dščerʹ
Tiếng Việt	con gái
العربية	اِبْنَة ibna, بِنْت bint
עברית	בַּת bat

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@misc{daughter_2026,
  title = {daughter},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/daughter},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}