Definition of daughter in English:

daughter

noun ˈdɔːtə

1A girl or woman in relation to either or both of her parents.
女儿
Example sentencesExamples
- Another possibility is that the findings reveal a reciprocal relationship between daughters and their parents.
- So fearful are parents that their daughters will be taken away that they refuse to simply drop them off; they or a relative will stay outside all day to make sure nothing happens.
- The Sankramana was an occasion for married daughters to visit their parents and for the young to visit elderly relatives to seek their blessings.
- Therefore, it was the sons who took responsibility for the care of their elderly parents rather than daughters.
- Given the times, most parents would like their daughters to have some skill or ability to be financially independent - if need be.
- Parents encourage daughters to sweat and grunt in physical competition, and even supermodels sport muscles obtained by logging hours at the gym.
- The meeting followed years of campaigning by the parents after their daughters were diagnosed with severe blood disorders that required bone marrow transplants.
- Parents discouraged their daughters from nurturing such ambitions, and employers considered young women to be temporary help at best.
- Parents with three daughters are about 10% more likely to get divorced than parents of three sons.
- Parents of teenage daughters worry most about anorexia, they say, and above all else, teenage boys' parents fear paranoid schizophrenia.
- In the majority of our traditions, it is common to see parents encourage their young daughters to abandon school and get married at ages which are prohibited by law.
- According to Banerjee, a large part of the reason for parents giving their daughters the go-ahead now is the lure of decent employment.
- Friends, wives, lovers, parents, daughters of the unlucky ones must also grapple with the consequences.
- Even men who marry commoners are struggling to afford lobola, which has increased with the expectations of parents whose daughters are marrying into the mushrooming black middle class.
- There is a widely held assumption, especially among those who have daughters, that girls thrive in the absence of boys, but that boys do better with a female presence in the classroom.
- Maybe all the parents who warned their daughters not to date poets were right…
- Lalita has introduced her community to the merits of education; she works to prevent child marriage and encourages parents to send daughters to school.
- I think a sense of proportion is required - stupid parents will tell their daughters that they must wear make-up when they go out.
- Many parents keep their daughters home for fear of kidnapping.
- Like JM Coetzee's Disgrace, the novel which pipped it to the prize, Fasting, Feasting has a storyline which revolves around parents and daughters.
Synonyms
female child, girl
informal lass
1. 1.1 A female offspring of an animal.
  （动物的）雌性后代
  Example sentencesExamples
  Twelve of his daughters have produced foals that earned more than $1-million.
  Other benefits from this information include more accurate information on bulls calving ease and his daughters production and survival details.
  In places with lots of food, they produced lots of daughters that stayed at the nest to help raise their younger chicks.
  Over her average 10-year lifespan, a doe and her daughters can produce up to 100 fawns.
  We need to choose beef sires that can produce daughters with good maternal traits.
  Likewise, when the breeding population was male-biased, producing daughters would be favored.
  Synonyms
  child, baby, infant, son, youngster, little one, tot, tiny tot
2. 1.2 A female descendant.
  女性后裔
  we are the sons and daughters of Adam
  我们是亚当的后代。
  Example sentencesExamples
  A female should also maximize fitness of both sons and daughters.
  The couple, who have spent all of their married life in Pewsey, will be celebrating their golden wedding with a family gathering attended by their two sons and two daughters and eight grand children.
  Descent is patrilineal - both sons and daughters are born into the clan of their father.
  As more parents realize the importance of a good education, they are sending their children to the best schools in town or financing overseas educations for their sons and daughters.
  She is survived by her three sons and two daughters, brother John Marren, Toberroddy, sisters Una and Marian, in laws, relations, neighbours and friends.
  The group consisted of singers as young as 4-years-old and in some instances included mothers performing along with their daughters and sons.
  Born on the 6th March, 1830, he married Catherine Finan from Loughglynn and they raised a family of nine children, five sons and four daughters.
  Parental involvement is a big element in the success of the challenge and all parents have been invited to support and encourage their sons / daughters during the Initiative.
  Mr Jones, whose wife Alice died two-and-a-half years ago, leaves two daughters, two sons, nine grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.
  In species where both parents share in the care, selection may favor differential investment in sons and daughters by male and female parents.
  With our junk food, lack of exercise, self-indulgences and self-imposed stress, many of our old folk will outlive their sons, daughters and even grandchildren.
  In order to elevate the socio-economic standing of both their family and the nation, middle class sons and daughters were urged to pursue higher education and ambitious careers.
  On pensions, the Democrat proposes sticking to the status quo, but making sure that this generation puts enough aside for its retirement and does not run up bills its sons and daughters cannot pay.
  Moving scenes are witnessed at airports and ferry terminals as thousands of returning sons and daughters, fathers and mothers, make their long trek home to be with their loved ones.
  Families with a number of sons or daughters may get the right to select an embryo of the opposite sex in the first review of assisted reproduction for 15 years, ministers said yesterday.
  Wives are employed, as are the sons and daughters of colleagues, occasionally doing party political campaigning work when they are paid only to do constituency and parliamentary work.
  The widespread ambivalence over whether the sons and daughters of Egyptian women married to foreign men should be allowed Egyptian citizenship assumed many dimensions.
  Meelick's Independent local candidate Noel Broggy has called on the Government to make it easier for the sons and daughters of farmers to get planning permission on their own lands.
3. 1.3 A woman considered as the product of a particular person, influence, or environment.
  女儿；（某种影响或环境的）产物（指女性）
  she was a daughter of the vicarage in manner and appearance
  她的举止和外表深受教区牧师家庭环境的影响。
  Example sentencesExamples
  He also married Hettie Cohen, a union that would last several years and produce two daughters.
  He had married his wife Pauline just a year previously and they had three daughters, Donna, Laura and Paula.
  Even though I can't sing like the Beach Boys, I'm glad that my daughters are California girls.
  Mr Ancram lives with his wife Jane and two daughters near Pewsey.
  Before we continue to explain how Mary's career developed, we should say a little more about her father who, in his way, was a remarkable man and a major influence on his daughters.
  Mr Nicol is survived by his wife, Mable, two daughters, Jane and Alison, and by his sister Grace Nicol.
  Hill served in the Mexican War and the Seminole Wars; his 1859 marriage to Kitty Morgan was a happy one that produced four daughters.
  Mary feels quite powerless to protect her own daughter and to influence where she is going and what she is doing online.
  He has four children; one 12-year-old rock guitarist son and three blonde daughters aged 18, 19 and 21.
  Henry felt that the crown needed a male heir but his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, produced only a daughter, Mary.
  Sir Josslyn, his wife Lady Jane and their two daughters have already started living in England and hope to have bought a house over there in the next 18 months.
  Horvath married Helene, his heart's desire, on October 9, 1942, and with her produced two lovely daughters.
  The Carlisles are the parents of two daughters.
  With their mother laid up with a broken ankle, Jane Tomlinson's daughters have decided to fund-raise on her behalf.
  One day, after waving goodbye to his daughters, Tyawan descended into the valley.
  I am proud to be an Army retiree, and I have been able to influence and enjoy my daughter's childhood.
  They helped me to be a better parent to my two daughters.
  He acknowledged his eight-year-old daughter Adesola as the influence for him returning to his musical roots.
  My parents have three daughters, and of my cousins who share my last name, only one is a boy - and, frankly, I don't like just his values being associated with my name.
  Gilda Pirella has always been her daughter's biggest influence and greatest inspiration.
4. 1.4archaic Used as a term of affectionate address to a woman or girl, typically by an older person.
  〈古〉尤用作年长者对女子或女孩的爱称孩子
5. 1.5literary A thing personified as a daughter in relation to its origin or source.
  〈诗/文〉…之女
  Italian, the eldest daughter of ancient Latin
  意大利语，古拉丁语中的长女。
  Example sentencesExamples
  I'm no longer the daughter of a gangster; I'm a daughter of Christ.
  In the language of the scriptures, becoming a son or daughter of Christ is to re-establish that familial relationship which was destroyed by sin.
  The Muses are the daughters of hope and the stepdaughters of memory.
2Physics
A nuclide formed by the radioactive decay of another.
〔物理〕子体，放射性衰变产物
as radon gas decays it produces daughters that attach themselves to dust particles
Example sentencesExamples
- Ratios of naturally occurring radioactive minerals to their decay daughters can be used in determining the age of geological materials.
- The atoms then undergo nuclear fission, producing daughter nuclei and more neutrons.
- Radon - 222 progeny is another name for the Rn decay products or Rn daughters.
- The radon gas will then also decay into radioactive solid particles, called radon daughters or radon progenitors.
- Active devices detect and record radon or its daughter products continuously.
- Another problem, discussed here, is that the first daughter product of Ra is radon gas.

Derivatives

daughterhood

noun

Gender boundaries blur even further in Harry Dodge's By Hook or by Crook, though the gut emotions of motherhood and daughterhood remain keen.
Example sentencesExamples
- A thought - am I waiting for permission to take a chance, to leap into the unknown, to shuck off my shackles of motherhood, wifehood, daughterhood and to become the person that is lurking beneath.
- The novel presents Clara Schumann's struggle to balance the demands of daughterhood, motherhood and marriage with her pursuit of art.
- This paper examines Tsuga no yume, Naku tori no, and ‘Boshi’, which detail the reality of motherhood and daughterhood in a nuclear family under the patriarchal system.
- In the last year, I've learned a lot about motherhood, and daughterhood and being a friend, and even about being a wife now that I'm not one.

daughterly

adjective ˈdɔːtəli

Veda begins to show a more-than daughterly interest in Beragon herself and an affair begins that Mildred soon becomes aware of.
Example sentencesExamples
- Weekends flash by with nothing more than a stroll on one of the hills surrounding Cheltenham; holiday walks are constrained by daughterly reluctance.
- When I get there I'll have to play the bubbly life and soul / daughterly duet thing with my dad.
- As part of her daughterly duties, Romola assists her father by keeping the books on the shelves in exactly the same places they have occupied for years.
- I want you to get well, and then maybe we can spend some mother and daughterly times together, like before, remember?

Origin

Old English dohtor, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch dochter and German Tochter, from an Indo-European root shared by Greek thugatēr.

Rhymes

aorta, exhorter, exporter, extorter, Horta, importer, mortar, porter, quarter, slaughter, snorter, sorter, sporter, supporter, three-quarter, torte, transporter, underwater, water

Definition of daughter in US English:

daughter

noun

1A girl or woman in relation to her parents.
女儿
Example sentencesExamples
- Another possibility is that the findings reveal a reciprocal relationship between daughters and their parents.
- According to Banerjee, a large part of the reason for parents giving their daughters the go-ahead now is the lure of decent employment.
- Lalita has introduced her community to the merits of education; she works to prevent child marriage and encourages parents to send daughters to school.
- So fearful are parents that their daughters will be taken away that they refuse to simply drop them off; they or a relative will stay outside all day to make sure nothing happens.
- The meeting followed years of campaigning by the parents after their daughters were diagnosed with severe blood disorders that required bone marrow transplants.
- Parents of teenage daughters worry most about anorexia, they say, and above all else, teenage boys' parents fear paranoid schizophrenia.
- Parents discouraged their daughters from nurturing such ambitions, and employers considered young women to be temporary help at best.
- Parents encourage daughters to sweat and grunt in physical competition, and even supermodels sport muscles obtained by logging hours at the gym.
- I think a sense of proportion is required - stupid parents will tell their daughters that they must wear make-up when they go out.
- Friends, wives, lovers, parents, daughters of the unlucky ones must also grapple with the consequences.
- Many parents keep their daughters home for fear of kidnapping.
- Therefore, it was the sons who took responsibility for the care of their elderly parents rather than daughters.
- Like JM Coetzee's Disgrace, the novel which pipped it to the prize, Fasting, Feasting has a storyline which revolves around parents and daughters.
- The Sankramana was an occasion for married daughters to visit their parents and for the young to visit elderly relatives to seek their blessings.
- In the majority of our traditions, it is common to see parents encourage their young daughters to abandon school and get married at ages which are prohibited by law.
- Maybe all the parents who warned their daughters not to date poets were right…
- Parents with three daughters are about 10% more likely to get divorced than parents of three sons.
- Even men who marry commoners are struggling to afford lobola, which has increased with the expectations of parents whose daughters are marrying into the mushrooming black middle class.
- There is a widely held assumption, especially among those who have daughters, that girls thrive in the absence of boys, but that boys do better with a female presence in the classroom.
- Given the times, most parents would like their daughters to have some skill or ability to be financially independent - if need be.
Synonyms
female child, girl
1. 1.1 A female offspring of an animal.
  （动物的）雌性后代
  Example sentencesExamples
  Likewise, when the breeding population was male-biased, producing daughters would be favored.
  Twelve of his daughters have produced foals that earned more than $1-million.
  In places with lots of food, they produced lots of daughters that stayed at the nest to help raise their younger chicks.
  We need to choose beef sires that can produce daughters with good maternal traits.
  Other benefits from this information include more accurate information on bulls calving ease and his daughters production and survival details.
  Over her average 10-year lifespan, a doe and her daughters can produce up to 100 fawns.
  Synonyms
  child, baby, infant, son, youngster, little one, tot, tiny tot
2. 1.2 A female descendant.
  女性后裔
  we are the sons and daughters of Adam
  我们是亚当的后代。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Parental involvement is a big element in the success of the challenge and all parents have been invited to support and encourage their sons / daughters during the Initiative.
  Descent is patrilineal - both sons and daughters are born into the clan of their father.
  Moving scenes are witnessed at airports and ferry terminals as thousands of returning sons and daughters, fathers and mothers, make their long trek home to be with their loved ones.
  Born on the 6th March, 1830, he married Catherine Finan from Loughglynn and they raised a family of nine children, five sons and four daughters.
  As more parents realize the importance of a good education, they are sending their children to the best schools in town or financing overseas educations for their sons and daughters.
  The widespread ambivalence over whether the sons and daughters of Egyptian women married to foreign men should be allowed Egyptian citizenship assumed many dimensions.
  With our junk food, lack of exercise, self-indulgences and self-imposed stress, many of our old folk will outlive their sons, daughters and even grandchildren.
  A female should also maximize fitness of both sons and daughters.
  On pensions, the Democrat proposes sticking to the status quo, but making sure that this generation puts enough aside for its retirement and does not run up bills its sons and daughters cannot pay.
  Families with a number of sons or daughters may get the right to select an embryo of the opposite sex in the first review of assisted reproduction for 15 years, ministers said yesterday.
  In species where both parents share in the care, selection may favor differential investment in sons and daughters by male and female parents.
  She is survived by her three sons and two daughters, brother John Marren, Toberroddy, sisters Una and Marian, in laws, relations, neighbours and friends.
  Meelick's Independent local candidate Noel Broggy has called on the Government to make it easier for the sons and daughters of farmers to get planning permission on their own lands.
  In order to elevate the socio-economic standing of both their family and the nation, middle class sons and daughters were urged to pursue higher education and ambitious careers.
  The couple, who have spent all of their married life in Pewsey, will be celebrating their golden wedding with a family gathering attended by their two sons and two daughters and eight grand children.
  Wives are employed, as are the sons and daughters of colleagues, occasionally doing party political campaigning work when they are paid only to do constituency and parliamentary work.
  Mr Jones, whose wife Alice died two-and-a-half years ago, leaves two daughters, two sons, nine grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.
  The group consisted of singers as young as 4-years-old and in some instances included mothers performing along with their daughters and sons.
3. 1.3 A woman considered as the product of a particular person, influence, or environment.
  女儿；（某种影响或环境的）产物（指女性）
  a daughter of the dry savannas of Africa
  Example sentencesExamples
  He had married his wife Pauline just a year previously and they had three daughters, Donna, Laura and Paula.
  Henry felt that the crown needed a male heir but his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, produced only a daughter, Mary.
  Sir Josslyn, his wife Lady Jane and their two daughters have already started living in England and hope to have bought a house over there in the next 18 months.
  Mr Ancram lives with his wife Jane and two daughters near Pewsey.
  He also married Hettie Cohen, a union that would last several years and produce two daughters.
  One day, after waving goodbye to his daughters, Tyawan descended into the valley.
  Horvath married Helene, his heart's desire, on October 9, 1942, and with her produced two lovely daughters.
  He has four children; one 12-year-old rock guitarist son and three blonde daughters aged 18, 19 and 21.
  Before we continue to explain how Mary's career developed, we should say a little more about her father who, in his way, was a remarkable man and a major influence on his daughters.
  They helped me to be a better parent to my two daughters.
  Mary feels quite powerless to protect her own daughter and to influence where she is going and what she is doing online.
  Even though I can't sing like the Beach Boys, I'm glad that my daughters are California girls.
  Gilda Pirella has always been her daughter's biggest influence and greatest inspiration.
  Hill served in the Mexican War and the Seminole Wars; his 1859 marriage to Kitty Morgan was a happy one that produced four daughters.
  I am proud to be an Army retiree, and I have been able to influence and enjoy my daughter's childhood.
  My parents have three daughters, and of my cousins who share my last name, only one is a boy - and, frankly, I don't like just his values being associated with my name.
  With their mother laid up with a broken ankle, Jane Tomlinson's daughters have decided to fund-raise on her behalf.
  The Carlisles are the parents of two daughters.
  He acknowledged his eight-year-old daughter Adesola as the influence for him returning to his musical roots.
  Mr Nicol is survived by his wife, Mable, two daughters, Jane and Alison, and by his sister Grace Nicol.
4. 1.4archaic Used as a term of affectionate address to a woman or girl, typically by an older person.
  〈古〉尤用作年长者对女子或女孩的爱称孩子
5. 1.5literary A thing personified as a daughter in relation to its origin or source.
  〈诗/文〉…之女
  Italian, the eldest daughter of ancient Latin
  意大利语，古拉丁语中的长女。
  Example sentencesExamples
  I'm no longer the daughter of a gangster; I'm a daughter of Christ.
  The Muses are the daughters of hope and the stepdaughters of memory.
  In the language of the scriptures, becoming a son or daughter of Christ is to re-establish that familial relationship which was destroyed by sin.
6. 1.6Physics A nuclide formed by the radioactive decay of another.
  〔物理〕子体，放射性衰变产物
  Example sentencesExamples
  The atoms then undergo nuclear fission, producing daughter nuclei and more neutrons.
  The radon gas will then also decay into radioactive solid particles, called radon daughters or radon progenitors.
  Ratios of naturally occurring radioactive minerals to their decay daughters can be used in determining the age of geological materials.
  Radon - 222 progeny is another name for the Rn decay products or Rn daughters.
  Another problem, discussed here, is that the first daughter product of Ra is radon gas.
  Active devices detect and record radon or its daughter products continuously.

adjective

Biology

Originating through division or replication.
daughter cells

Origin

Old English dohtor, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch dochter and German Tochter, from an Indo-European root shared by Greek thugatēr.

单词	daughter
释义	Definition of daughter in English: daughter noun ˈdɔːtə 1A girl or woman in relation to either or both of her parents. 女儿 Example sentencesExamples Another possibility is that the findings reveal a reciprocal relationship between daughters and their parents. So fearful are parents that their daughters will be taken away that they refuse to simply drop them off; they or a relative will stay outside all day to make sure nothing happens. The Sankramana was an occasion for married daughters to visit their parents and for the young to visit elderly relatives to seek their blessings. Therefore, it was the sons who took responsibility for the care of their elderly parents rather than daughters. Given the times, most parents would like their daughters to have some skill or ability to be financially independent - if need be. Parents encourage daughters to sweat and grunt in physical competition, and even supermodels sport muscles obtained by logging hours at the gym. The meeting followed years of campaigning by the parents after their daughters were diagnosed with severe blood disorders that required bone marrow transplants. Parents discouraged their daughters from nurturing such ambitions, and employers considered young women to be temporary help at best. Parents with three daughters are about 10% more likely to get divorced than parents of three sons. Parents of teenage daughters worry most about anorexia, they say, and above all else, teenage boys' parents fear paranoid schizophrenia. In the majority of our traditions, it is common to see parents encourage their young daughters to abandon school and get married at ages which are prohibited by law. According to Banerjee, a large part of the reason for parents giving their daughters the go-ahead now is the lure of decent employment. Friends, wives, lovers, parents, daughters of the unlucky ones must also grapple with the consequences. Even men who marry commoners are struggling to afford lobola, which has increased with the expectations of parents whose daughters are marrying into the mushrooming black middle class. There is a widely held assumption, especially among those who have daughters, that girls thrive in the absence of boys, but that boys do better with a female presence in the classroom. Maybe all the parents who warned their daughters not to date poets were right… Lalita has introduced her community to the merits of education; she works to prevent child marriage and encourages parents to send daughters to school. I think a sense of proportion is required - stupid parents will tell their daughters that they must wear make-up when they go out. Many parents keep their daughters home for fear of kidnapping. Like JM Coetzee's Disgrace, the novel which pipped it to the prize, Fasting, Feasting has a storyline which revolves around parents and daughters. Synonyms female child, girl informal lass 1.1 A female offspring of an animal. （动物的）雌性后代 Example sentencesExamples Twelve of his daughters have produced foals that earned more than $1-million. Other benefits from this information include more accurate information on bulls calving ease and his daughters production and survival details. In places with lots of food, they produced lots of daughters that stayed at the nest to help raise their younger chicks. Over her average 10-year lifespan, a doe and her daughters can produce up to 100 fawns. We need to choose beef sires that can produce daughters with good maternal traits. Likewise, when the breeding population was male-biased, producing daughters would be favored. Synonyms child, baby, infant, son, youngster, little one, tot, tiny tot 1.2 A female descendant. 女性后裔 we are the sons and daughters of Adam 我们是亚当的后代。 Example sentencesExamples A female should also maximize fitness of both sons and daughters. The couple, who have spent all of their married life in Pewsey, will be celebrating their golden wedding with a family gathering attended by their two sons and two daughters and eight grand children. Descent is patrilineal - both sons and daughters are born into the clan of their father. As more parents realize the importance of a good education, they are sending their children to the best schools in town or financing overseas educations for their sons and daughters. She is survived by her three sons and two daughters, brother John Marren, Toberroddy, sisters Una and Marian, in laws, relations, neighbours and friends. The group consisted of singers as young as 4-years-old and in some instances included mothers performing along with their daughters and sons. Born on the 6th March, 1830, he married Catherine Finan from Loughglynn and they raised a family of nine children, five sons and four daughters. Parental involvement is a big element in the success of the challenge and all parents have been invited to support and encourage their sons / daughters during the Initiative. Mr Jones, whose wife Alice died two-and-a-half years ago, leaves two daughters, two sons, nine grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren. In species where both parents share in the care, selection may favor differential investment in sons and daughters by male and female parents. With our junk food, lack of exercise, self-indulgences and self-imposed stress, many of our old folk will outlive their sons, daughters and even grandchildren. In order to elevate the socio-economic standing of both their family and the nation, middle class sons and daughters were urged to pursue higher education and ambitious careers. On pensions, the Democrat proposes sticking to the status quo, but making sure that this generation puts enough aside for its retirement and does not run up bills its sons and daughters cannot pay. Moving scenes are witnessed at airports and ferry terminals as thousands of returning sons and daughters, fathers and mothers, make their long trek home to be with their loved ones. Families with a number of sons or daughters may get the right to select an embryo of the opposite sex in the first review of assisted reproduction for 15 years, ministers said yesterday. Wives are employed, as are the sons and daughters of colleagues, occasionally doing party political campaigning work when they are paid only to do constituency and parliamentary work. The widespread ambivalence over whether the sons and daughters of Egyptian women married to foreign men should be allowed Egyptian citizenship assumed many dimensions. Meelick's Independent local candidate Noel Broggy has called on the Government to make it easier for the sons and daughters of farmers to get planning permission on their own lands. 1.3 A woman considered as the product of a particular person, influence, or environment. 女儿；（某种影响或环境的）产物（指女性） she was a daughter of the vicarage in manner and appearance 她的举止和外表深受教区牧师家庭环境的影响。 Example sentencesExamples He also married Hettie Cohen, a union that would last several years and produce two daughters. He had married his wife Pauline just a year previously and they had three daughters, Donna, Laura and Paula. Even though I can't sing like the Beach Boys, I'm glad that my daughters are California girls. Mr Ancram lives with his wife Jane and two daughters near Pewsey. Before we continue to explain how Mary's career developed, we should say a little more about her father who, in his way, was a remarkable man and a major influence on his daughters. Mr Nicol is survived by his wife, Mable, two daughters, Jane and Alison, and by his sister Grace Nicol. Hill served in the Mexican War and the Seminole Wars; his 1859 marriage to Kitty Morgan was a happy one that produced four daughters. Mary feels quite powerless to protect her own daughter and to influence where she is going and what she is doing online. He has four children; one 12-year-old rock guitarist son and three blonde daughters aged 18, 19 and 21. Henry felt that the crown needed a male heir but his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, produced only a daughter, Mary. Sir Josslyn, his wife Lady Jane and their two daughters have already started living in England and hope to have bought a house over there in the next 18 months. Horvath married Helene, his heart's desire, on October 9, 1942, and with her produced two lovely daughters. The Carlisles are the parents of two daughters. With their mother laid up with a broken ankle, Jane Tomlinson's daughters have decided to fund-raise on her behalf. One day, after waving goodbye to his daughters, Tyawan descended into the valley. I am proud to be an Army retiree, and I have been able to influence and enjoy my daughter's childhood. They helped me to be a better parent to my two daughters. He acknowledged his eight-year-old daughter Adesola as the influence for him returning to his musical roots. My parents have three daughters, and of my cousins who share my last name, only one is a boy - and, frankly, I don't like just his values being associated with my name. Gilda Pirella has always been her daughter's biggest influence and greatest inspiration. 1.4archaic Used as a term of affectionate address to a woman or girl, typically by an older person. 〈古〉尤用作年长者对女子或女孩的爱称孩子 1.5literary A thing personified as a daughter in relation to its origin or source. 〈诗/文〉…之女 Italian, the eldest daughter of ancient Latin 意大利语，古拉丁语中的长女。 Example sentencesExamples I'm no longer the daughter of a gangster; I'm a daughter of Christ. In the language of the scriptures, becoming a son or daughter of Christ is to re-establish that familial relationship which was destroyed by sin. The Muses are the daughters of hope and the stepdaughters of memory. 2Physics A nuclide formed by the radioactive decay of another. 〔物理〕子体，放射性衰变产物 as radon gas decays it produces daughters that attach themselves to dust particles Example sentencesExamples Ratios of naturally occurring radioactive minerals to their decay daughters can be used in determining the age of geological materials. The atoms then undergo nuclear fission, producing daughter nuclei and more neutrons. Radon - 222 progeny is another name for the Rn decay products or Rn daughters. The radon gas will then also decay into radioactive solid particles, called radon daughters or radon progenitors. Active devices detect and record radon or its daughter products continuously. Another problem, discussed here, is that the first daughter product of Ra is radon gas. Derivatives daughterhood noun Gender boundaries blur even further in Harry Dodge's By Hook or by Crook, though the gut emotions of motherhood and daughterhood remain keen. Example sentencesExamples A thought - am I waiting for permission to take a chance, to leap into the unknown, to shuck off my shackles of motherhood, wifehood, daughterhood and to become the person that is lurking beneath. The novel presents Clara Schumann's struggle to balance the demands of daughterhood, motherhood and marriage with her pursuit of art. This paper examines Tsuga no yume, Naku tori no, and ‘Boshi’, which detail the reality of motherhood and daughterhood in a nuclear family under the patriarchal system. In the last year, I've learned a lot about motherhood, and daughterhood and being a friend, and even about being a wife now that I'm not one. daughterly adjective ˈdɔːtəli Veda begins to show a more-than daughterly interest in Beragon herself and an affair begins that Mildred soon becomes aware of. Example sentencesExamples Weekends flash by with nothing more than a stroll on one of the hills surrounding Cheltenham; holiday walks are constrained by daughterly reluctance. When I get there I'll have to play the bubbly life and soul / daughterly duet thing with my dad. As part of her daughterly duties, Romola assists her father by keeping the books on the shelves in exactly the same places they have occupied for years. I want you to get well, and then maybe we can spend some mother and daughterly times together, like before, remember? Origin Old English dohtor, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch dochter and German Tochter, from an Indo-European root shared by Greek thugatēr. Rhymes aorta, exhorter, exporter, extorter, Horta, importer, mortar, porter, quarter, slaughter, snorter, sorter, sporter, supporter, three-quarter, torte, transporter, underwater, water Definition of daughter in US English: daughter noun 1A girl or woman in relation to her parents. 女儿 Example sentencesExamples Another possibility is that the findings reveal a reciprocal relationship between daughters and their parents. According to Banerjee, a large part of the reason for parents giving their daughters the go-ahead now is the lure of decent employment. Lalita has introduced her community to the merits of education; she works to prevent child marriage and encourages parents to send daughters to school. So fearful are parents that their daughters will be taken away that they refuse to simply drop them off; they or a relative will stay outside all day to make sure nothing happens. The meeting followed years of campaigning by the parents after their daughters were diagnosed with severe blood disorders that required bone marrow transplants. Parents of teenage daughters worry most about anorexia, they say, and above all else, teenage boys' parents fear paranoid schizophrenia. Parents discouraged their daughters from nurturing such ambitions, and employers considered young women to be temporary help at best. Parents encourage daughters to sweat and grunt in physical competition, and even supermodels sport muscles obtained by logging hours at the gym. I think a sense of proportion is required - stupid parents will tell their daughters that they must wear make-up when they go out. Friends, wives, lovers, parents, daughters of the unlucky ones must also grapple with the consequences. Many parents keep their daughters home for fear of kidnapping. Therefore, it was the sons who took responsibility for the care of their elderly parents rather than daughters. Like JM Coetzee's Disgrace, the novel which pipped it to the prize, Fasting, Feasting has a storyline which revolves around parents and daughters. The Sankramana was an occasion for married daughters to visit their parents and for the young to visit elderly relatives to seek their blessings. In the majority of our traditions, it is common to see parents encourage their young daughters to abandon school and get married at ages which are prohibited by law. Maybe all the parents who warned their daughters not to date poets were right… Parents with three daughters are about 10% more likely to get divorced than parents of three sons. Even men who marry commoners are struggling to afford lobola, which has increased with the expectations of parents whose daughters are marrying into the mushrooming black middle class. There is a widely held assumption, especially among those who have daughters, that girls thrive in the absence of boys, but that boys do better with a female presence in the classroom. Given the times, most parents would like their daughters to have some skill or ability to be financially independent - if need be. Synonyms female child, girl 1.1 A female offspring of an animal. （动物的）雌性后代 Example sentencesExamples Likewise, when the breeding population was male-biased, producing daughters would be favored. Twelve of his daughters have produced foals that earned more than $1-million. In places with lots of food, they produced lots of daughters that stayed at the nest to help raise their younger chicks. We need to choose beef sires that can produce daughters with good maternal traits. Other benefits from this information include more accurate information on bulls calving ease and his daughters production and survival details. Over her average 10-year lifespan, a doe and her daughters can produce up to 100 fawns. Synonyms child, baby, infant, son, youngster, little one, tot, tiny tot 1.2 A female descendant. 女性后裔 we are the sons and daughters of Adam 我们是亚当的后代。 Example sentencesExamples Parental involvement is a big element in the success of the challenge and all parents have been invited to support and encourage their sons / daughters during the Initiative. Descent is patrilineal - both sons and daughters are born into the clan of their father. Moving scenes are witnessed at airports and ferry terminals as thousands of returning sons and daughters, fathers and mothers, make their long trek home to be with their loved ones. Born on the 6th March, 1830, he married Catherine Finan from Loughglynn and they raised a family of nine children, five sons and four daughters. As more parents realize the importance of a good education, they are sending their children to the best schools in town or financing overseas educations for their sons and daughters. The widespread ambivalence over whether the sons and daughters of Egyptian women married to foreign men should be allowed Egyptian citizenship assumed many dimensions. With our junk food, lack of exercise, self-indulgences and self-imposed stress, many of our old folk will outlive their sons, daughters and even grandchildren. A female should also maximize fitness of both sons and daughters. On pensions, the Democrat proposes sticking to the status quo, but making sure that this generation puts enough aside for its retirement and does not run up bills its sons and daughters cannot pay. Families with a number of sons or daughters may get the right to select an embryo of the opposite sex in the first review of assisted reproduction for 15 years, ministers said yesterday. In species where both parents share in the care, selection may favor differential investment in sons and daughters by male and female parents. She is survived by her three sons and two daughters, brother John Marren, Toberroddy, sisters Una and Marian, in laws, relations, neighbours and friends. Meelick's Independent local candidate Noel Broggy has called on the Government to make it easier for the sons and daughters of farmers to get planning permission on their own lands. In order to elevate the socio-economic standing of both their family and the nation, middle class sons and daughters were urged to pursue higher education and ambitious careers. The couple, who have spent all of their married life in Pewsey, will be celebrating their golden wedding with a family gathering attended by their two sons and two daughters and eight grand children. Wives are employed, as are the sons and daughters of colleagues, occasionally doing party political campaigning work when they are paid only to do constituency and parliamentary work. Mr Jones, whose wife Alice died two-and-a-half years ago, leaves two daughters, two sons, nine grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren. The group consisted of singers as young as 4-years-old and in some instances included mothers performing along with their daughters and sons. 1.3 A woman considered as the product of a particular person, influence, or environment. 女儿；（某种影响或环境的）产物（指女性） a daughter of the dry savannas of Africa Example sentencesExamples He had married his wife Pauline just a year previously and they had three daughters, Donna, Laura and Paula. Henry felt that the crown needed a male heir but his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, produced only a daughter, Mary. Sir Josslyn, his wife Lady Jane and their two daughters have already started living in England and hope to have bought a house over there in the next 18 months. Mr Ancram lives with his wife Jane and two daughters near Pewsey. He also married Hettie Cohen, a union that would last several years and produce two daughters. One day, after waving goodbye to his daughters, Tyawan descended into the valley. Horvath married Helene, his heart's desire, on October 9, 1942, and with her produced two lovely daughters. He has four children; one 12-year-old rock guitarist son and three blonde daughters aged 18, 19 and 21. Before we continue to explain how Mary's career developed, we should say a little more about her father who, in his way, was a remarkable man and a major influence on his daughters. They helped me to be a better parent to my two daughters. Mary feels quite powerless to protect her own daughter and to influence where she is going and what she is doing online. Even though I can't sing like the Beach Boys, I'm glad that my daughters are California girls. Gilda Pirella has always been her daughter's biggest influence and greatest inspiration. Hill served in the Mexican War and the Seminole Wars; his 1859 marriage to Kitty Morgan was a happy one that produced four daughters. I am proud to be an Army retiree, and I have been able to influence and enjoy my daughter's childhood. My parents have three daughters, and of my cousins who share my last name, only one is a boy - and, frankly, I don't like just his values being associated with my name. With their mother laid up with a broken ankle, Jane Tomlinson's daughters have decided to fund-raise on her behalf. The Carlisles are the parents of two daughters. He acknowledged his eight-year-old daughter Adesola as the influence for him returning to his musical roots. Mr Nicol is survived by his wife, Mable, two daughters, Jane and Alison, and by his sister Grace Nicol. 1.4archaic Used as a term of affectionate address to a woman or girl, typically by an older person. 〈古〉尤用作年长者对女子或女孩的爱称孩子 1.5literary A thing personified as a daughter in relation to its origin or source. 〈诗/文〉…之女 Italian, the eldest daughter of ancient Latin 意大利语，古拉丁语中的长女。 Example sentencesExamples I'm no longer the daughter of a gangster; I'm a daughter of Christ. The Muses are the daughters of hope and the stepdaughters of memory. In the language of the scriptures, becoming a son or daughter of Christ is to re-establish that familial relationship which was destroyed by sin. 1.6Physics A nuclide formed by the radioactive decay of another. 〔物理〕子体，放射性衰变产物 Example sentencesExamples The atoms then undergo nuclear fission, producing daughter nuclei and more neutrons. The radon gas will then also decay into radioactive solid particles, called radon daughters or radon progenitors. Ratios of naturally occurring radioactive minerals to their decay daughters can be used in determining the age of geological materials. Radon - 222 progeny is another name for the Rn decay products or Rn daughters. Another problem, discussed here, is that the first daughter product of Ra is radon gas. Active devices detect and record radon or its daughter products continuously. adjective Biology Originating through division or replication. daughter cells Origin Old English dohtor, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch dochter and German Tochter, from an Indo-European root shared by Greek thugatēr.
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