daughter : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: daughter	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for daughter
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
daughter n a female human offspring; "her daughter cared for her in her old age" Synonym(s): daughter, girl Antonym(s): boy, son
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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[omac]ttir, Sw. dotter, Dan. dotter, datter, Goth. da[a3]htar,, OSlav. d[ucr]shti, Russ. doche, Lith. dukt[emac], Gr. qyga`thr, Zend. dughdhar, Skr. duhit[rsdot]; 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. 2. A female descendant; a woman. This woman, being a daughter of Abraham. --Luke xiii. 16. Dinah, the daughter of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob, went out to see the daughter of the land. --Gen. xxxiv. 1. 3. A son's wife; a daughter-in-law. And Naomi said, Turn again, my daughters. --Ruth. i. 11. 4. A term of address indicating parental interest. Daughter, be of good comfort. --Matt. ix. 22. {Daughter cell} (Biol.), one of the cells formed by cell division. See {Cell division}, under {Division}.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
daughter (Or "child", "successor") In a {tree}, a {node} pointed to by a {parent}, i.e. another node closer to the {root node}. (1998-11-14)
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Daughter This word, besides its natural and proper sense, is used to designate, (1.) A niece or any female descendant (Gen. 20:12; 24:48; 28:6). (2.) 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). (3.) 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). (4.) The people of Jerusalem are spoken of as "the daughters of Zion" (Isa. 37:22). (5.) The daughters of a tree are its boughs (Gen. 49:22). (6.) The "daughters of music" (Eccl. 12:4) are singing women.