daugh|ter

daugh|ter «D tuhr», noun, adjective.

–n.

1. a) a female child. A girl is the daughter of her father and mother. Abbr: dau. b) a daughter-in-law. c) a kindly term of address to a girl as from an older person, priest, or the like.

2. a) a female descendant. Women are sometimes figuratively called daughters of Eve. b) Figurative. a girl or woman attached to a country, cause, organization, project, or other undertaking, as a child is to its parents: »

a daughter of France, daughters of liberty. A daughter of our meadows (Tennyson).

c) anything thought of as a daughter in relation to its origin: »

The Romance tongues are the daughters of the Latin language.

–adj.

1. like a daughter.

2. of a daughter.

3. Biology. having the relationship of offspring of the first generation, or resulting from a primary division or segmentation. See also daughter chromosome. (Cf. ↑daughter chromosome)

╂[Old English dohtor]