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daughter

/daw-ter/US // ˈdɔ tər //UK // (ˈdɔːtə) //

女儿,女兒,女孩子,女女

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a female child or person in relation to her parents.
    • : any female descendant.
    • : a person related as if by the ties binding daughter to parent: daughter of the church.
    • : anything personified as female and considered with respect to its origin: The United States is the daughter of the 13 colonies.
    • : Chemistry, Physics. an isotope formed by radioactive decay of another isotope.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : Biology. pertaining to a cell or other structure arising from division or replication: daughter cell; daughter DNA.

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Examples

  • Clark confirmed Ingalls’ daughter was the only returning cheerleader cut this season, but said freshmen trying out for the first time were also cut.

  • Planned for nearly 20 years—a pact between my mother and her college roommate to each name their first daughter Kate.

  • One parent of two teenagers involved in the effort, Robert Jason Noonan, said his 16- and 17-year-old daughters were being paid by Turning Point to push “conservative points of view and values” on social media.

  • So what Tyler did was get out ahead of being shunted to secretaries and daughters by confused investors, the way Jenn Hyman had.

  • By the time Pure went public in 1995, my wife and I had been married for four years and we had one young daughter.

  • Then came Bess Myerson, a daughter of Russian-Jewish immigrants who was raised in the Sholem Aleichem Houses in the Bronx.

  • Like most Jewish mothers, Myerson thought her daughter could do better.

  • This is about no longer accepting that—as so many others have stated—a family would rather have a dead son than a living daughter.

  • I noticed a picture of her daughter, who was my classmate, and out of curiosity visited her page.

  • Her adopted daughter tried to suffocate a younger biological sibling.

  • "The Smoker," and "Mother and Daughter," a triptych, are two of her principal pictures.

  • The Rev. Alonzo Barnard, seventy-one years of age, accompanied by his daughter, was present.

  • He reached forward and took her hands, and if Mrs. Vivian had come in she would have seen him kneeling at her daughter's feet.

  • Every word that now fell from the agitated Empress was balm to the affrighted nerves of her daughter.

  • She looked from the picture to her daughter, with a frightful glare, in their before mild aspect.