noun
Meaning 1
One’s female offspring.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- I already have a son, so I would like to have a daughter.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: girl
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
daughter
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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dôʹtər
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈdɔːtə/
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Australian, British, New-Zealand, Southern, Standard: /ˈdoːtə/
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SSB Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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General-American: /ˈdɔ.tɚ/ without the cot–caught merger
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General-American: /ˈdɔ.t̬ɚ/ without the cot–caught merger
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General-American: [ˈdɔ.ɾɚ] without the cot–caught merger
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General-American, cot-caught-merger: /ˈdɑ.tɚ/
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General-American, cot-caught-merger: [ˈdɑ.ɾɚ]
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US: cot-caught Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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Scotland: /ˈdɔtəɾ/
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homophone: dotter (cot–caught merger)
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rhymes with -ɔːtə(ɹ)
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CMU ARPABET: D AO1 T ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A female descendant.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: son
noun
Meaning 3
A daughter language.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
A nuclide left over from radioactive decay.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
A descendant.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences, syntax
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 6
A female character of a creator.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 7
A familiar address to a female person from an older or otherwise more authoritative person.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: derogatory, informal, sometimes, uncommon
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 8
a female human offspring
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- her daughter cared for her in her old age
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: girl
Antonyms: son
Broader terms: female offspring
Narrower terms: mother's daughter
History
Etymology
From Middle English doghter, doughter, from Old English dohtor (“daughter”), from Proto-West Germanic *dohter, from Proto-Germanic *duhtēr, from Proto-Indo-European *dhugh2tḗr.
Across languages
Translations
373 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Abkhaz: аԥҳа (apḥa) — female offspring
- Abkhaz: аҧҳа (apḥa) — female offspring
- Acehnese: aneuk inöng — female offspring
- Afrikaans: dogter meisie — female offspring
- Aghwan: 𐕐𐔰 (ša) — female offspring
- Akkadian: 𒌉𒊩 (mārtu, DUMU.MUNUS) — female offspring
- Albanian: bijë — female offspring
- Alutor: ӈавакык (ŋavakək) — female offspring
- Amharic: ሴት ልጅ (set ləǧ) — female offspring
- Andi: йеши (ješi) — female offspring
- Chungli Ao: jala — female offspring
- Arabic: اِبْنَة (ibna) — female offspring
- Arabic: بِنْت (bint) — female offspring
- Arabic: بت (bett) — female offspring
- Hassaniya Arabic: منت (mənt) — female offspring
- Arabic: بنت (bent) — female offspring
- Aragonese: filla — female offspring
- Aramaic: ܒܪܬܐ (barəṯā) — female offspring
- Aramaic: בְּרַתָּא (bərattā) — female offspring
- Armenian: աղջիկ (aġǰik) — female offspring
- Armenian: դուստր (dustr) — female offspring
- Old Armenian: դուստր (dustr) — female offspring
- Aromanian: hilji — female offspring
- Aromanian: hilje — female offspring
- Ashkun: zū — female offspring
- Assamese: জী (zi) — female offspring
- Assamese: দুহীতা (duhita) — female offspring
- Assamese: পুত্ৰী (putri) — female offspring
- Asturian: fía — female offspring
- Avar: яс (jas) — female offspring
- Aymara: phucha — female offspring
- Azerbaijani: qız — female offspring
- Bactrian: λογδο (logdo) — female offspring
- Bashkir: ҡыҙ (qıź) — female offspring
- Basque: alaba — female offspring
- Belarusian: дачка́ (dačká) — female offspring
- Bengali: মেয়ে (meẏe) — female offspring
- Bengali: বালিকা (balika) — female offspring
- Bhojpuri: बेटी (bēṭī) — female offspring
- Bhojpuri: धीया (dhīyā) — female offspring
- Breton: merc'h — female offspring
- Breton: merc'hed — female offspring
- Bulgarian: дъщеря́ (dǎšterjá) — female offspring
- Bulgarian: ще́рка (štérka) — female offspring
- Burmese: သမီး (sa.mi:) — female offspring
- Burmese: သ္မီး (sa.mi:) — female offspring
- Buryat: басаган (basagan) — female offspring
- Carpathian Rusyn: дї́вка (djívka) — female offspring
- Carpathian Rusyn: донька́ (donʹká) — female offspring
- Catalan: filla — female offspring
- Cebuano: anak — female offspring
- Central Atlas Tamazight: ⵓⵍⵜ (ult) — female offspring
- Chechen: йоӏ (joˀ) — female offspring
- Cherokee: ᎤᏪᏥ (uwetsi) — female offspring
- Cherokee: ᎤᏪᏥ ᎠᎨᏴ (uwetsi ageyv) — female offspring
- Cherokee: ᎠᏇᏥ (aquetsi) — female offspring
- Cherokee: ᎠᏇᏥ ᎠᎨᏴ (aquetsi ageyv) — female offspring
- Chinese Cantonese: 女 — female offspring
- Chinese: нүр (nür) — female offspring
- Eastern Min Chinese: 諸娘囝 /诸娘囝 (cṳ̆-nè̤ng-giāng) — female offspring
- Hakka Chinese: 妹仔 (moi-é) — female offspring
- Chinese: 查某囝 (cha-bó͘-kián) — female offspring
- Jin Chinese: 閨女 /闺女 (gui1 ny3) — female offspring
- Jin Chinese: 姑娘 (gu1 nion3) — female offspring
- Chinese Mandarin: 女兒 /女儿 (nǚ'ér) — female offspring
- Chinese Mandarin: 閨女 /闺女 (guīnü) — female offspring
- Chinese Mandarin: 姑娘 (gūniang) — female offspring
- Wu Chinese: 囡兒 /囡儿 — female offspring
- Xiang Chinese: 女 (nyy3) — female offspring
- Xiang Chinese: 妹子 (mei5 zr / mai5 zr) — female offspring
- Chukchi: н'ээкык — female offspring
- Chuvash: хӗр (hĕr) — female offspring
- East Circassian: пхъу (pꭓwu) — female offspring
- West Circassian: ыпхъу (əpꭓwu) — female offspring
- West Circassian: ипшъашъ (jipŝaŝ) — female offspring
- Crimean Tatar: qız — female offspring
- Czech: dcera — female offspring
- Old Czech: dci — female offspring
- Dalmatian: felja — female offspring
- Danish: datter — female offspring
- Dhivehi: ދި (di) — female offspring
- Dutch: dochter — female offspring
- Egyptian: zA-t-B1 (zꜣt) — female offspring
- Egyptian: S:r-i-t:G37 (šrjt) — female offspring
- Elfdalian: duotter — female offspring
- Erzya: тейтерь (tejteŕ) — female offspring
- Eshtehardi: تِتیَه (tetiya) — female offspring
- Esperanto: filino — female offspring
- Estonian: tütar — female offspring
- Even: хунадь (hunaʒ) — female offspring
- Evenki: хутэ (hutə) — female offspring
- Evenki: хунат (hunat) — female offspring
- Ewe: vinyɔnu — female offspring
- Extremaduran: ija — female offspring
- Faliscan: filea — female offspring
- Faroese: dóttir — female offspring
- Finnish: tytär — female offspring
- French: fille — female offspring
- North Frisian: foomen — female offspring
- North Frisian: doochter — female offspring
- West-Frisian: dochter — female offspring
- Friulian: fie — female offspring
- Friulian: frute — female offspring
- Galician: filla — female offspring
- Georgian: ქალი (kali) — female offspring
- Georgian: ასული (asuli) — female offspring
- Georgian: ქალიშვილი (kališvili) — female offspring
- Georgian: შვილი (švili) — female offspring
- German: Tochter — female offspring
- Gooniyandi: ngaliganyi — female offspring
- Gothic: 𐌳𐌰𐌿𐌷𐍄𐌰𐍂 (dauhtar) — female offspring
- Greek: κόρη (kóri) — female offspring
- Greek: θυγατέρα (thygatéra) — female offspring
- Ancient Greek: θυγάτηρ (thugátēr) — female offspring
- Greenlandic: panik — female offspring
- Paraguayan Guarani: ajýra (tajýra/rajy/itajýra) — female offspring
- Paraguayan Guarani: memby — female offspring
- Gujarati: દીકરી (dīkrī) — female offspring
- Haitian Creole: fi — female offspring
- Hanunoo: anak babayi — female offspring
- Hausa: 'ya — female offspring
- Hausa: ɗiya — female offspring
- Hawaiian: kaikamahine — female offspring
- Hebrew: בַּת (bat) — female offspring
- Hindi: बेटी (beṭī) — female offspring
- Hindi: लड़की (laṛkī) — female offspring
- Hindi: पुत्री (putrī) — female offspring
- Hindi: दुख़्तर (duxtar) — female offspring
- A Hmao: 𖽐𖼷𖽑𖽹 — female offspring
- Hungarian: lány — female offspring
- Icelandic: dóttir — female offspring
- Ido: filiino — female offspring
- Ilocano: anak — female offspring
- Indonesian: putri — female offspring
- Indonesian: anak perempuan — female offspring
- Ingrian: tytär — female offspring
- Ingrian: tyttö — female offspring
- Ingrian: neito — female offspring
- Ingush: йоӏ (joˀ) — female offspring
- Interlingua: filia — female offspring
- Inupiaq: panik — female offspring
- Irish: iníon — female offspring
- Old Irish: ingen — female offspring
- Primitive Irish: ᚔᚅᚔᚌᚓᚅᚐ (inigena) — female offspring
- Italian: figlia — female offspring
- Japanese: 娘 (musume) — female offspring
- Japanese: お嬢さん (ojōsan) — female offspring
- Japanese: いと (ito) — female offspring
- Javanese: anak wadon — female offspring
- Jeju: ᄄᆞᆯ (ttawl) — female offspring
- Jeju: ᄄᆞᆯ님 (ttawllim) — female offspring
- Jeju: 엔년 (ennyeon) — female offspring
- Kabyle: ⵢⴻⵍⵍⵉ (yelli) — female offspring
- Kaitag: рирси́ (rirsí) — female offspring
- Kalmyk: күүкн (küükn) — female offspring
- Kannada: ಮಗಳು (magaḷu) — female offspring
- Karachay-Balkar: къыз (qız) — female offspring
- Karakalpak: qız — female offspring
- Karelian: tytär — female offspring
- Kashmiri: کوٗر (kūr) — female offspring
- Kashubian: córa — female offspring
- Kazakh: қыз (qyz) — female offspring
- Khakas: хызы (xızı) — female offspring
- Khinalug: риши (riši) — female offspring
- Khmer: កូនស្រី (koun srəy) — female offspring
- Khmer: តនយា (taʼnaʼyaa) — female offspring
- Khmer: ធីតា (thiidaa) — female offspring
- Khmer: បុត្រី (botrəy) — female offspring
- Kikuyu: mwarĩ — female offspring
- Komi-Permyak: ныв (nyv) — female offspring
- Korean: 딸 (ttal) — female offspring
- Korean: 따님 (ttanim) — female offspring
- Middle Korean: ᄯᆞᆯ〮 (stól) — female offspring
- Northern Kurdish: keç — female offspring
- Kyrgyz: кыз (kız) — female offspring
- Lao: ລູກສາວ (lūk sāo) — female offspring
- Latgalian: meita — female offspring
- Latgalian: mārga — female offspring
- Latin: filia — female offspring
- Latin: nata — female offspring
- Latvian: meita — female offspring
- Lepcha: ᰊᰣᰤᰪᰀᰪᰱ (taʔyukup) — female offspring
- Lezgi: руш (ruš) — female offspring
- Ligurian: fìggia — female offspring
- Lithuanian: duktė — female offspring
- Lithuanian: dukra — female offspring
- Louisiana Creole: fiy — female offspring
- Low German: Dochter — female offspring
- Lü: ᦟᦴᧅᦍᦲᧂ (luukyiing) — female offspring
- Lutuv: sacanung — female offspring
- Luxembourgish: Duechter — female offspring
- Lycian: 𐊋𐊂𐊀𐊗𐊕𐊀 (kbatra) — female offspring
- Macedonian: ќе́рка (ḱérka) — female offspring
- Malagasy: zazavavy — female offspring
- Malay: anak perempuan — female offspring
- Malay: anak — female offspring
- Malayalam: പുത്രി (putri) — female offspring
- Maltese: bint — female offspring
- Manchu: ᠰᠠᡵᡤᠠᠨ ᠵᡠᡳ (sargan jui) — female offspring
- Manx: inneen — female offspring
- Māori: tamāhine — female offspring
- Māori: tamawahine — female offspring
- Māori: kōtiro — female offspring
- Māori: hine — female offspring
- Marathi: मलगी (malgī) — female offspring
- Eastern Mari: ӱдыр (üdyr) — female offspring
- Mazanderani: دتر (dëter) — female offspring
- Megleno-Romanian: il'ă — female offspring
- Middle English: doghter — female offspring
- Mirandese: filha — female offspring
- Mòcheno: tochter — female offspring
- Moksha: стирь (stiŕ) — female offspring
- Mongolian: охин (oxin) — female offspring
- Mongolian: ᠥᠬᠢᠨ (ökin) — female offspring
- Classical Nahuatl: ichpoch — female offspring
- Classical Nahuatl: ichpochtli — female offspring
- Classical Nahuatl: cihuaconetl — female offspring
- Classical Nahuatl: xocotzin — female offspring
- Nauruan: ñait ân — female offspring
- Navajo: hatsiʼ — female offspring
- Navajo: achʼéʼé — female offspring
- Neapolitan: figlia — female offspring
- Tundra Nenets: не ню (nye nyu) — female offspring
- Nepali: छोरी (chorī) — female offspring
- Nheengatu: ayera — female offspring
- Nheengatu: membira — female offspring
- Niuean: tama fifine — female offspring
- Norman: fil'ye — female offspring
- Norwegian Bokmål: datter — female offspring
- Norwegian Nynorsk: dotter — female offspring
- Occitan: filha — female offspring
- Old Occitan: filla — female offspring
- Odia: ଝିଅ (jhia) — female offspring
- Northern Ohlone: ká̄nakkānaim'in — female offspring
- Ojibwe: indaanis — female offspring
- Church Slavic: дъщи (dŭšti) — female offspring
- Church Slavic: ⰴⱏⱎⱅⰹ (dŭšti) — female offspring
- Old East Slavic: дочи (doči) — female offspring
- Old English: dohtor — female offspring
- Old English: ċild — female offspring
- Old Norse: dóttir — female offspring
- Old Saxon: dohtar — female offspring
- Old Uyghur: 𐽲𐽶𐽴 (qyz) — female offspring
- Ossetian: чызг (ḱyzg) — female offspring
- Pashto: لور (lur) — female offspring
- Pennsylvania German: Dochder — female offspring
- Dari: دُخْتَر (duxtar) — female offspring
- Dari: فَرْزَنْد (farzand) — female offspring
- Iranian Persian: دُخْتَر (doxtar) — female offspring
- Iranian Persian: فَرْزَنْد (farzand) — female offspring
- Middle Persian: duxtar — female offspring
- Phoenician: 𐤁𐤕 (bt) — female offspring
- Pitjantjatjara: uṉṯal — female offspring
- Plautdietsch: Dochta — female offspring
- Polish: córka — female offspring
- Portuguese: filha — female offspring
- Punjabi: ਧੀ (dhī) — female offspring
- Punjabi: ਪੁਤਰੀ (putrī) — female offspring
- Quechua: wawa — female offspring
- Quechua: ususi — female offspring
- Rohingya: zíi — female offspring
- Romagnol: fiöla — female offspring
- Romani: ćhaj — female offspring
- Kalo Finnish Romani: tšai — female offspring
- Vlax-Romani: ćhej — female offspring
- Romanian: fiică — female offspring
- Romansh: brit — female offspring
- Romansh: figlia — female offspring
- Russian: дочь (dočʹ) — female offspring
- Russian: до́чка (dóčka) — female offspring
- Russian: дщерь (dščerʹ) — female offspring
- Saho: barhä — female offspring
- Northern Sami: nieida — female offspring
- Skolt-Sami: nijdd — female offspring
- Sanskrit: दुहितृ (duhitṛ) — female offspring
- Sanskrit: पुत्री (putrī) — female offspring
- Sanskrit: सुता (sutā) — female offspring
- Sanskrit: नन्दिनी (nandinī) — female offspring
- Sardinian: filla — female offspring
- Sardinian: fiza — female offspring
- Sardinian: fitza — female offspring
- Scots: dochter — female offspring
- Scottish Gaelic: nighean — female offspring
- Scottish Gaelic: nighneag — female offspring
- Scottish Gaelic: nìonag — female offspring
- Serbo-Croatian: ће́рка — female offspring
- Serbo-Croatian: кће́рка — female offspring
- Serbo-Croatian: кћи̑ — female offspring
- Serbo-Croatian: ćérka — female offspring
- Serbo-Croatian: kćérka — female offspring
- Serbo-Croatian: kćȋ — female offspring
- Sidamo: beetto — female offspring
- Silesian: cera — female offspring
- Sindhi: ڌيءَ (dhī'a) — female offspring
- Sinhalese: දුව (duwa) — female offspring
- Slovak: dcéra — female offspring
- Slovene: hči — female offspring
- Somali: gabadh — female offspring
- Lower Sorbian: źowka — female offspring
- Upper Sorbian: dźowka — female offspring
- Spanish: hija — female offspring
- Sudovian: dukte — female offspring
- Sumerian: 𒌉𒊩 (TUR.SAL) — female offspring
- Swahili: binti — female offspring
- Swedish: dotter — female offspring
- Old Swedish: dōttir — female offspring
- Tabasaran: риш (riš) — female offspring
- Tagalog: anak — female offspring
- Tajik: духтар (duxtar) — female offspring
- Talysh: کلا (kəlâ) — female offspring
- Tamil: மகள் (makaḷ) — female offspring
- Taos: phȉwéna — female offspring
- Tarifit: yeǧi — female offspring
- Tatar: кыз (qız) — female offspring
- Telugu: కూతురు (kūturu) — female offspring
- Telugu: కుమార్తె (kumārte) — female offspring
- Telugu: పుత్రిక (putrika) — female offspring
- Telugu: అమ్మాయి (ammāyi) — female offspring
- Thai: ลูกสาว (lûuk-sǎao) — female offspring
- Tibetan: བུ་མོ (bu mo) — female offspring
- Tibetan: སྲས་མོ (sras mo) — female offspring
- Tigrinya: ጓል (gwal) — female offspring
- Tocharian A: ckācar — female offspring
- Tocharian B: tkācer — female offspring
- Tswana: morwadi — female offspring
- Tupinambá: aîyra (t-, t-) — female offspring
- Tupinambá: membyra — female offspring
- Turkish: kız — female offspring
- Turkish: kız evlat — female offspring
- Ottoman Turkish: قیز (kız) — female offspring
- Turkmen: gyz — female offspring
- Turkmen: gyyz — female offspring
- Tuvan: кыс (kıs) — female offspring
- Tuvan: уруг (urug) — female offspring
- Udmurt: ныл (nyl) — female offspring
- Ugaritic: 𐎁𐎚 (bt) — female offspring
- Ukrainian: дочка́ (dočká) — female offspring
- Ukrainian: до́нька (dónʹka) — female offspring
- Urdu: بیٹی (beṭī) — female offspring
- Urdu: پُتْری (putrī) — female offspring
- Urdu: کُڑی (kuṛī) — female offspring
- Urdu: دُخْتَر (duxtar) — female offspring
- Uyghur: قىز (qiz) — female offspring
- Uzbek: qiz — female offspring
- Venetan: fìa — female offspring
- Venetan: fioła — female offspring
- Vietnamese: con gái — female offspring
- Vilamovian: tohter — female offspring
- Volapük: daut — female offspring
- Walloon: feye — female offspring
- Walloon: båshele — female offspring
- Welsh: merch — female offspring
- Welsh: merched — female offspring
- Woiwurrung: manggip — female offspring
- Woiwurrung: kerin — female offspring
- Wolaytta: michchiyo — female offspring
- Wolof: doom ju jigéen — female offspring
- Xârâcùù: nêêwâ — female offspring
- Xhosa: intombazana — female offspring
- Yaghnobi: ғайк (ġayk) — female offspring
- Yakut: кыыс оҕо (kïïs oğo) — female offspring
- Yakut: кыыс (kïïs) — female offspring
- Yámana: ma-kipa — female offspring
- Yiddish: טאָכטער (tokhter) — female offspring
- Yoruba: ọmọ — female offspring
- Yoruba: ọmọbìnrin — female offspring
- Yup'ik: panik — female offspring
- Zazaki: keyna (diq) — female offspring
- Zazaki: çêna (diq) — female offspring
- Zhuang: lugsau — female offspring
- Zhuang: lugnyingz — female offspring
- Zhuang: lwgmbwk — female offspring
- Zulu: indodakazi — female offspring
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