daughters

Noun

daughter (plural daughters or (archaic) daughtren)

1. One’s female offspring.
   • I already have a son, so I would like to have a daughter.

   Synonyms:

   girl

2. 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?1950 October, C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (fiction)

   Antonyms:

   son

3. A daughter language.
4. A nuclide left over from radioactive decay.
5. 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).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...
6. (broadly) A female character of a creator.

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