Daughter (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

noun
  1. a female child or person in relation to her parents.
  2. any female descendant.
  3. a person related as if by the ties binding daughter to parent: daughter of the church.
  4. anything personified as female and considered with respect to its origin: The United States is the daughter of the 13 colonies.
  5. an isotope formed by radioactive decay of another isotope.
adjective
  1. pertaining to a cell or other structure arising from division or replication: daughter cell; daughter DNA.
noun
  1. a female offspring; a girl or woman in relation to her parents
  2. a female descendant
  3. a female from a certain country, etc, or one closely connected with a certain environment, etc
  4. a form of address for a girl or woman
adjective
  1. denoting a cell or unicellular organism produced by the division of one of its own kind
  2. (of a nuclide) formed from another nuclide by radioactive decay
Daughter (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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