Definition of daughter

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Daughter (n.) A female descendant; a woman.

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Daughters :: Daughters (pl. ) of Daughte.
Fatimide :: Fatimide (a.) Descended from Fatima, the daughter and only child of Mohammed..
Daughterliness :: Daughterliness (n.) The state of a daughter, or the conduct becoming a daughter..
Filicide :: Filicide (n.) The act of murdering a son or a daughter; also, parent who commits such a murder..
Stepson :: Stepsister (n.) A daughter of one's stepfather or stepmother by a former marriage.
Primogeniture :: Primogeniture (a.) The exclusive right of inheritance which belongs to the eldest son. Thus in England the right of inheriting the estate of the father belongs to the eldest son, and in the royal family the eldest son of the sovereign is entitled to the throne by primogeniture. In exceptional cases, among the female children, the crown descends by right of primogeniture to the eldest daughter only and her issue..
Duteous :: Duteous (a.) Fulfilling duty; dutiful; having the sentiments due to a superior, or to one to whom respect or service is owed; obedient; as, a duteous son or daughter..
Unfilial :: Unfilial (a.) Unsuitable to a son or a daughter; undutiful; not becoming a child.
Daughter :: Daughter (n.) The female offspring of the human species; a female child of any age; -- applied also to the lower animals.
Atlantides :: Atlantides (n. pl.) The Pleiades or seven stars, fabled to have been the daughters of Atlas..
Eldest :: Eldest (a.) Born or living first, or before the others, as a son, daughter, brother, etc.; first in origin. See Elder..
Daughterly :: Daughterly (a.) Becoming a daughter; filial.
Nereid :: Nereid (n.) A sea nymph, one of the daughters of Nereus, who were attendants upon Neptune, and were represented as riding on sea horses, sometimes with the human form entire, and sometimes with the tail of a fish..
Hotchpotch :: Hotchpotch (n.) A blending of property for equality of division, as when lands given in frank-marriage to one daughter were, after the death of the ancestor, blended with the lands descending to her and to her sisters from the same ancestor, and then divided in equal portions among all the daughters. In modern usage, a mixing together, or throwing into a common mass or stock, of the estate left by a person deceased and the amounts advanced to any particular child or children, for the purpose of
Goddaughter :: Goddaughter (n.) A female for whom one becomes sponsor at baptism.
Diaster :: Diaster (n.) A double star; -- applied to the nucleus of a cell, when, during cell division, the loops of the nuclear network separate into two groups, preparatory to the formation of two daughter nuclei. See Karyokinesis..
Doughtren :: Doughtren (n. pl.) Daughters.
Pleiades :: Pleiades (n. pl.) The seven daughters of Atlas and the nymph Pleione, fabled to have been made by Jupiter a constellation in the sky..
Elder :: Elder (a.) Born before another; prior in years; senior; earlier; older; as, his elder brother died in infancy; -- opposed to younger, and now commonly applied to a son, daughter, child, brother, etc..
Urania :: Urania (n.) One of the nine Muses, daughter of Zeus by Mnemosyne, and patron of astronomy..
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