daughter meaning
EN
[ˈdɔːtə(ɹ)] [ˈdɔ.tɚ] [ˈdɑ.tɚ] 
US UK WDaughter
- A daughter is a female offspring; a girl, woman, or female animal in relation to her parents. Daughterhood is the state of being a daughter. The male counterpart is a son.
- In patriarchal societies, daughters often have different or lesser familial rights than sons. A family may prefer to have sons rather than daughters, with the daughters subjected to female infanticide.
- In the United States, the birth rate is 105 sons to 100 daughters which has been the natural birth rate since the 18th century. About 80 percent of prospective adoptive parents from the US will choose a girl over a boy.
- NounPLdaughtersPLdaughtrenSUF-ter
- One’s female offspring.
- I already have a son, so I would like to have a daughter.
- A female descendant.
- A daughter language.
- (physics) A nuclide left over from radioactive decay.
- One’s female offspring.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- My daughter is babysitting for the Morgans at number ten, who are going out on a date night.
- Such sentence and the dameship's cool conceit Roused in the other a maternal heat, Who answered that her daughter was as good As any lordling of her dameship's brood;
- My daughter has to sleep with her teddy bear or she gets scared.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- The Matchmaking Festival provided social events for these lonely-hearted pilgrims, and allowed local personages to keep undesirables away from their daughters.
- He conveyed ownership of the company to his daughter.
- Mrs Johnston died at thirty, and left behind three young daughters.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of daughter in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Nouns
- en daughters
- en daughter-in-law
- en daughtered
- en daughterly
- en daughtering
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "daughter" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun.