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daughter

/ˈdɔ.tɚ/ noun A1
  1. One’s female offspring. · I already have a son, so I would like to have a daughter.
  2. A female descendant.
  3. A daughter language.
  4. A nuclide left over from radioactive decay.
  5. A descendant.
  6. A female character of a creator.
  7. A familiar address to a female person from an older or otherwise more authoritative person. (informal)

Plural daughters

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Pinkney’s daughter—on Seventy-first street.
Six stories from The Four Million, p. 3 · C1
“My pupil is his daughter Clementina.
Six stories from The Four Million, p. 3 · C1
Arnold: I want to thank you for your most kind and opportune aid to my daughter last Friday evening, when she was overcome by an attack of her old heart-trouble in the conservatory at Mrs.
Six stories from The Four Million, p. 39 · C1
It was pretty interesting to imagine things about them--to imagine that perhaps the girl who sat next to you was really the daughter of a belted earl, who had been stolen away from her parents in her infancy by a cruel nurse who died before she could confess.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 16 · C1

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