daughter

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  1. noun One's female child.
  2. noun A female descendant.
  3. noun A woman considered as if in a relationship of child to parent: a daughter of the nation.
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  • I hope she will deliver a long sermon of reproof, and that she will speak to me with all the frankness of friendship; for my daughter will be always, I trust, my most intimate friend; I will only be a father in affection, and paternal love shall unite in my heart with friendship. —  Memoirs, Correspondence and Manuscripts of General Lafayette
  • This daughter was a perfect jewel, who had very little difficulty in persuading me to come with them to Stuttgart, where I expected, for other reasons, to have a very pleasant stay. —  Holland and Germany
  • The Toscani told me that her daughter was a neophyte, and that she had made up her mind not to let the duke touch her till he had dismissed his reigning mistress, whose place she was designed to take. —  Holland and Germany
  • This mother of hers, a woman of the lowest birth, had become very proud since her daughter was a prince's mistress, and thought my relationship a blot on their escutcheon. —  Holland and Germany
  • This alarmed me, and I went to Dresden to ask her parents what their daughter was about. —  My Life, Volume I
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  1. Middle English doughter, from Old English dohtor; see dhugəter- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English also doughter; from Middle English daughter, douhter, doghter, douter, dohter, etc., from Anglo-Saxon dohtor, plural dohtor, dohtra, dohtru, = Old Saxon dohtar = OFries. dochter = Old Dutch D. dochter = Middle Low German Low German dochter = Old High German tohtar, Middle High German tohter, German tochter = Icelandic dōttir = Old Swedish doktir, dottir, Swedish dotter = Danish datter = Greek θυγάτηρ (not in L., where filia, daughter, feminine of filius, son: see filial) = Old Bulgarian dŭshti (genitive dŭshtere), Bulgarian dŭshterya = Servian shći, kći, ćer = Bohemian dci, cera = Polish cora = Little Russian dochka = Russian dshcherĭ, dochĭ = Lithuanian duktē = Irish dear, etc., = Sanskrit duhitar = Zend dughdar, daughter. Ulterior origin unknown; apparently ‘milker,’ or ‘suckler,’ from √ *dhugh, Sanskrit √ duh, milk.
 

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