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US
/ˈdɔtɝ/
]
[ UK /dˈɔːtɐ/ ]
[ UK /dˈɔːtɐ/ ]
NOUN
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a female human offspring
her daughter cared for her in her old age
How To Use daughter In A Sentence
- As a postscript to the story, my great grandfather died a few weeks after this conversation, proving, as his wife pointed out to her daughter, that she had been correct in her surmise.
- Upstairs were the bedrooms; mother-and-fathers room the largest; a smaller room for one or two sons, another for one or two daughters; each of these rooms containing a double bed, a washstand, a bureau, a wardrobe, a little table, a rocking-chair, and often a chair or two that had been slightly damaged downstairs, but not enough to justify either the expense of repair or decisive abandonment in the attic. Chapter 1
- She would have taken a great deal of trouble that her daughters might not be a flounce behind the fashions, and was so far-seeing in her motherly anxieties, that she junketed herself and Major Buller to many an entertainment, where they were bored for their pains, that the extensive acquaintance might ensure to the girls partners, both for balls and for life when they came to require them. Six to Sixteen: A Story for Girls
- Another daughter, Elizabeth, died of fever at age two in 1764 and was buried in the Negro cemetery alongside Nina.
- I shall be glad when the last of my daughters is married off.
- The King looked at him and seeing him to be yet comelier than his daughter and goodlier than she in stature and proportion and brightness and perfection, said to him, The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
- It wasn't just the obvious favouritism towards their own daughter that ticked him off either, that wasn't even the beginning of it.
- In town for the competition is Phil's arch rival and inveterate cheat Ray and his lovely American daughter Christina.
- She is also survived by her sons, daughters and sister-in-law.
- I was talking to a mom today whose daughter's elementary teacher said she was afraid that her daughter had "selective mutism. Canard - French Word-A-Day