English Dictionary

daughter

/ˈdɔːtə(ɹ)/

noun

One’s female offspring. / A female descendant. / A daughter language. / (physics) A nuclide left over from radioactive decay. / (syntax, of a parse tree) A descendant.

My daughter is studying medicine in college.

意味（1）

One’s female offspring.

I already have a son, so I would like to have a daughter.

意味（2）

A female descendant.

Daughter of Eve from the far land of Spare Oom where eternal summer reigns around the bright city of War Drobe, how would it be if you came and had tea with me?

意味（3）

A daughter language.

意味（4）

(physics) A nuclide left over from radioactive decay.

意味（5）

(syntax, of a parse tree) A descendant.

We have distinguished two types of situations from the point of view of the placement of the obligatory X constituent within the phrase XP: one in which X is a daughter of XP, and one in which X is not a daughter of XP, but a daughter of one of the constituents of XP (in an adjunct configuration).

意味（6）

(by extension) A female character of a creator.

意味（7）

(informal, uncommon, sometimes derogatory) A familiar address to a female person from an older or otherwise more authoritative person.