daughter
pronunciation
How to pronounce daughter in British English:
UK [ˈdɔːtə(r)]
How to pronounce daughter in American English:
US [ˈdɔːtər]
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- Noun:
- a female human offspring
Word Origin
- daughter
- daughter: [OE] Daughter is an ancient word which goes back to Indo-European *dhughə tēr. Apart from Latin and the Romance languages (with filia and its descendants) and Celtic (Welsh has merch), all the Indo-European languages have inherited this form: Greek had thugátēr, Armenian dustr, Old Slavic dusti (whence Russian doch’), and Sanskrit duhitar-.The prehistoric Germanic word was *dohtēr, which produced Gothic dauhtar, German tochter, Dutch dochter, Swedish dotter, Danish datter, and of course English daughter. It is not known where the Indo-European word ultimately came from, although correspondences have been suggested with Sanskrit duh- ‘milk’ and Greek teúkho ‘make’.
- daughter (n.)
- Old English dohtor, from Proto-Germanic *dokhter, earlier *dhukter (cognates: Old Saxon dohtar, Old Norse dottir, Old Frisian and Dutch dochter, German Tochter, Gothic dauhtar), from PIE *dhugheter (cognates: Sanskrit duhitar-, Avestan dugeda-, Armenian dustr, Old Church Slavonic dušti, Lithuanian dukte, Greek thygater). The common Indo-European word, lost in Celtic and Latin (Latin filia "daughter" is fem. of filius "son"). The modern spelling evolved 16c. in southern England. Daughter-in-law is attested from late 14c.
Antonym
Example
- 1. He has a daughter studying at harvard .
- 2. Rajiv and sonia had a son and a daughter .
- 3. In china midwives charge more for delivering a son than a daughter .
- 4. Our next guest is best known as jet bower , scrapping daughter and this dress on 24 .
- 5. The son of a qing dynasty official , he married the daughter of a wealthy family and went into banking .