daughter

noun
/ˈdɔːtə/UK/ˈdɔ.tɚ/US/ˈdoːtɐ/

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.

  1. inherited from *dʰugh₂tḗr
  2. inherited from *duhtēr
  3. inherited from *dohter
  4. inherited from dohtor — “daughter
  5. inherited from doghter

Definitions

  1. One’s female offspring.

    • I already have a son, so I would like to have a daughter.
    • And ye ſhal eate the fleſh of your ſonnes, and the fleſh of your daughters ſhall ye eate.
    • They discovered Weller had two daughters and a daughter-in-law in the same cemetery.
  2. A female descendant.

    • Daughter of Eve from the far land of Spare Oom where eternal summer reigns around the bright city of War Drobe, how would it be if you came and had tea with me?
  3. A daughter language.

  4. + 4 more definitions
    1. A nuclide left over from radioactive decay.

    2. A descendant.

      • Following the conventional pattern, the argument daughter of a node is assigned the index n0 and placed on the left side, and the functor daughter, the index n1, is placed on the right side.
    3. A female character of a creator.

    4. A familiar address to a female person from an older or otherwise more authoritative…

      A familiar address to a female person from an older or otherwise more authoritative person.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at daughter. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01daughter02offspring03progeny04lineage05paid06pay07debt08adopt09child

A definitional loop anchored at daughter. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at daughter

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA