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| daughter [ dáwtər ] |
noun (plural daughters) |
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1. female child: somebody's female child
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2. woman or girl connected with place: a woman or girl considered as a product of a place or institution
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formal
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  daughter of the church
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3. product of something: something produced by or issuing from something else
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literary
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Truth is the daughter of time.
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4. descendant: a woman or girl descendant
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literary
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a daughter of Eve
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5. nuclear physics nuclide formed by radioactive decay: a nuclide formed from an element by radioactive decay
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adjective |
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| Definition: |
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1. formed from something else: formed by or from a similar thing, usually retaining close links with it and sometimes remaining subordinate to it
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2. being offspring: produced by a process of reproduction, replication, or division
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| [ Old English dohtor< Indo-European] |
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| daughterless adjective |
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