'Daughter' definitions:

Definition of 'daughter'

From: WordNet
noun
A female human offspring; "her daughter cared for her in her old age" [syn: daughter, girl] [ant: boy, son]

Definition of 'Daughter'

From: GCIDE
  • Daughter \Daugh"ter\, n.; pl. Daughters; obs. pl. Daughtren. [OE. doughter, doghter, dohter, AS. dohtor, dohter; akin to OS. dohtar, D. dochter, G. tochter, Icel. d[=o]ttir, Sw. dotter, Dan. dotter, datter, Goth. da['u]htar,, OSlav. d[u^]shti, Russ. doche, Lith. dukt[=e], Gr. qyga`thr, Zend. dughdhar, Skr. duhit[.r]; possibly originally, the milker, cf. Skr. duh to milk. [root]68, 245.]
  • 1. The female offspring of the human species; a female child of any age; -- applied also to the lower animals. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. A female descendant; a woman. [1913 Webster]
  • This woman, being a daughter of Abraham. --Luke xiii. 16. [1913 Webster]
  • Dinah, the daughter of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob, went out to see the daughter of the land. --Gen. xxxiv. 1. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. A son's wife; a daughter-in-law. [1913 Webster]
  • And Naomi said, Turn again, my daughters. --Ruth. i. 11. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. A term of address indicating parental interest. [1913 Webster]
  • Daughter, be of good comfort. --Matt. ix. 22. [1913 Webster]
  • Daughter cell (Biol.), one of the cells formed by cell division. See Cell division, under Division. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Daughter'

From: Easton
  • Daughter This word, besides its natural and proper sense, is used to designate,
  • A niece or any female descendant (Gen. 20:12; 24:48; 28:6).
  • Women as natives of a place, or as professing the religion of a place; as, "the daughters of Zion" (Isa. 3:16), "daughters of the Philistines" (2 Sam. 1:20).
  • Small towns and villages lying around a city are its "daughters," as related to the metropolis or mother city. Tyre is in this sense called the daughter of Sidon (Isa. 23:12).
  • The people of Jerusalem are spoken of as "the daughters of Zion" (Isa. 37:22).
  • The daughters of a tree are its boughs (Gen. 49:22).
  • The "daughters of music" (Eccl. 12:4) are singing women.