daughterdaugh‧ter /ˈdɔːtə $ ˈdɒːtər/ ●●● S1 W1 noun [countable] 
She’s got two daughters and one son. our eldest daughterdaughter of the daughter of an English king
WORD ORIGINdaughter
Origin:
Old English dohtorEXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- English is a daughter language of German and Latin.
- In traditional societies, parents were often reluctant to send their daughters to school.
- My aunt has five daughters and three sons.
- Our youngest daughter is getting married next month.
- But perhaps to avoid being carried away by nostalgia, he wisely left the bidding to his wife and daughter.
- How have I failed to retrieve my own daughter from the stranger she has become?
- It was a bright pink crooked pena novelty item that belonged to my daughter.
- Now she was raising grandchildren while her daughters froze in Boston and Montreal.
- They had four sons and four daughters.
- This was the same machine who had computed so many of the calculations involved in designing his daughter.
- When the daughters were ten, their talent was recognized by a well-known theatrical director.
Longman Language Activatorsomeone's son or daughter
someone's son or daughter, of any age: · She named her first child Katrin.· One of her children lives in Australia now.· The house seems very quiet now that all the children have left home.an only child (=a child that has no brothers or sisters): · Alexandra was an only child and the centre of her mother's world.
informal someone's son or daughter - use this about children aged up to 14 or 15: · All I ever wanted was to get married and have kids.· Could you look after the kids this evening?
someone's male child: · We have two teenage sons.· Her son used to work in Texas.· The family business has now been taken over by Anderson's eldest son.
someone's female child: · Our youngest daughter is getting married next month.· My aunt has five daughters and three sons.· In traditional societies, parents were often reluctant to send their daughters to school.
spoken someone's young son or daughter: · Paula had to go home - her little girl's sick.· "How old's your little boy?" "He's three."
a person's or animal's baby or babies - used humorously or in formal contexts about someone's children: somebody's offspring: · Parents with the disease are likely to pass it on to their offspring.· Hardly a day goes by without Mrs Molt or one of her offspring calling around to borrow something.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES His elder son Liam became a lawyer. My eldest daughter is 17.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
· We’d like a baby brother or sister for Ben.
His elder son Liam became a lawyer. My eldest daughter is 17.· Nenna was struck by the difference in her elder daughter since she had seen her last.· Bruch suggests that a significantly large proportion of anorexics are eldest or elder daughters.· Inside the caravan her elder daughter was pushing at the door to come out.· It took me a while to realise that the elder daughter had only a stump instead of a left arm.· His elder daughters, seventeen-year-old Nancy and fourteen-year-old Ella, were round all over.· Kate and John's two elder daughters, Jemima and Jenny, particularly enjoy this part of Christmas.· Terry wrote out messages for his girlfriend Madeleine and their daughter Sulome, his elder daughter Gabrielle and for his sister Peggy.
· In the years that followed, Mary's eldest daughter went to Bible college to train for the mission field.· He had to pay when his eldest daughter was married. 4.· Grimsdale's eldest daughter cleaned the room briefly with a broom and the rest of the children scurried about the house.· Their eldest daughter, Elizabeth, 15, tried to commit suicide.· A week later villagers found the corpse of his eldest daughter, 12, by the creek.· This couple have four or five kids and their eldest daughter is about seventeen.· Bruch suggests that a significantly large proportion of anorexics are eldest or elder daughters.· In 1874 he married Lelia, eldest daughter of Leon Serena of Venice.
· Well, according to Mummy Hawn, at 33 Chris is too old for her daughter.· The woman was accused of having beaten her four-year-old daughter when the daughter refused to be quiet.· A brother or sister for the couple's five-year-old daughter Hailie might not be imminent, though.· The couple also have a 1-year-old daughter.· Andy Barnes, his 15 year old daughter, Paula.· Their 16-year-old daughter, Chelsea, stood by proudly.· We were staying with our 17 year old daughter Rachel at Club Portinatx.· I punished my 11-year-old daughter the other day.
· As you know Annabelle is our only daughter, so this will be our only chance to stage such a lovely wedding.· The Richards had an only daughter, Ann, who inherited the house.· Her only daughter, the apple of her eye, had been brawling in the street.· Her gaze lighted on her only daughter and her face softened.· She'd lost her husband and her only daughter and didn't want anything to happen to her only granddaughter.· He's thought of changing his will and his investments - but she is his only daughter.· She's my only daughter and I took out an endowment for her at birth in preparation for this.
· Some of the more sensational reports claimed that Misrati had used his attractive young daughter to gain access to information.· He certainly did not treat her as a little princess, a status that youngest daughters in some families enjoy.· My youngest daughter is four and I've been told she's got worms.· In one example, a couple whose young daughter had died had her image erased from a family photo.· To her horror, when she returned the Vauxhall Cavalier had vanished with her young daughter still inside.· She lived with the famed guitarist for six years and bore his youngest daughter, now 8.· She is unemployed, and bringing up two young daughters on benefits.
NOUN· Within moments of our first encounter, he has whipped out a Photo-Me booth shot of his newborn baby daughter.· She found her baby daughter crying, spattered with blood, and her husband dying on the floor.· The father was found guilty of the manslaughter of his baby daughter of three months.· Their baby daughter was brought up by an aunt, a Mrs Reed of Gateshead.· Last year Viscount Althorp presented his new baby daughter, Kitty.· This series ended with the birth of Frank and Betty's baby daughter, Jessica.· Chamoun's baby daughter survived the assault.· Mr Lewis, the mechanic, for example, soon managed to quieten my baby daughter Rachel while I was out of the room.
VERB· On 26 November 1986 their only child was born, a daughter, T., the subject of these proceedings.· He spoke about Hadassah's background as the Prague-born daughter of Holocaust survivors.· It was into this lawless milieu that Devi was born, the second daughter of a low-caste illiterate farmer.· Charles and Micki Browning, both hospital employees, stayed home with their prematurely born daughter.· There two children were born, a daughter, Agnes, who soon died, and a son, Axel.
· When she died, the daughter was an obvious successor.· They had two sons who died young and three daughters.· The son has since died and the daughter has handed over her interests in the case to lawyers.· That was an independent province until Duke Francis died, leaving his daughter Anne as his only heir.
· At the time he was not counting on a schoolteacher to floor him by marrying his only daughter, his only child.· In 1888 he married Maud, daughter of Charles Hindle, Brighton hotelier.· Browne married Martha, daughter of Henry Tilden, gentleman, in 1616.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
someone’s female child: - And then they went into this foster children um, having a home for foster children.
- As a result, the report said, one in 10 foster children remains in the system for more than seven years.
- Other foster children with happy memories did the same, though distance and new relationships combined to make contact sporadic.
- Roland then removed the spell from himself and the good foster daughter.
- The witch was able to see her foster daughter and Roland fleeing because of her magic powers.
- These foster children are not available for adoption.
- These are establishments which, for a fee, will undertake to foster children of very tender years.
- I had two grown daughters, and when I lost the first one, this one became the apple of my eye.
- See more of his grown daughter and son.
- Seeing photographs of Rubilove Willcox Aiu in newspapers last Sunday was unexpected and bewildering for her grown children.
- Tall, slender and divorced, Sheila had-incredibly-two grown sons.
- The senator, 72, has a grown daughter by his former wife but is of grandfatherly vintage now.
- Yet her husband, laid off from his job as a messenger, and her grown children are unemployed.
- My middle daughter was like that, tall and slim and you could hardly tell.
- My older brother played Elvis music at his wedding, and my middle brother and I rolled our eyes.
- Now, for the middle child.
- Richard Nixon: A middle child who became known for diplomacy in foreign affairs, among other things.
- The wronged self Peter is the middle child of five.
- They may send the middle children to Jessy's parents in an attempt to get the eldest through secondary school.
- A prodigal daughter, I had learned in only one day, I was not.
- A final provocative statement from a life-long prankster, a prodigal son of Harvard, it seems so fitting.
- He is a classic modern tough guy as well as being an Old Testament prodigal son.
- The prodigal son had returned to Parkhead.
- The prodigal son will feast with harlots no more.
- The parable of the prodigal son conveys at a conscious level a message about the need for forgiveness and acceptance.
- The play, very moral in tone throughout, is a reworking of the theme of the return of the prodigal son.
- When the music stopped, Gary concentrated on the parable of the prodigal son.
She’s got two daughters and one son. our eldest daughterdaughter of the daughter of an English king