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[ noun ] a female human offspring
Synonyms Examples "her daughter cared for her in her old age" Used in print (The Atlanta Constitution...)They have a son , William_Berry_Jr. , and a daughter , Mrs._J._M._Cheshire of Griffin . (Frank Getlein and Harold C. Gardiner, S.J., Movies,...)As the robbers leave the looted train , the film suddenly cuts_back to the station , where the telegrapher 's little daughter arrives with her father 's dinner_pail only to find him bound on the floor . (B. J. D. Meeuse, The Story of Pollination....)After another two_weeks , the first young emerge , four to eight small daughters that begin to play the role of worker_bees , collecting pollen and nectar in the field and caring for the new young generation while the queen retires to a life of egg_laying . (David Stacton, The Judges of the Secret Court....)If he had any worries , it was only the small ones , about Mother in New_York , and his daughter Edwina and what she might be doing at this hour , with her Aunt_Asia , in Philadelphia . (Guy Bolton, The Olympians....)With a pardonable irony Shelley wrote to the father who had publicly disowned his daughter : Related terms |
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