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Definition of daughter noun from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

      

    daughter

     noun
    noun
    NAmE//ˈdɔt̮ər//
     
     
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  1. 1a person's female child We have two sons and a daughter. They have three grown-up daughters. She's the daughter of a Harvard professor. Topic CollocationsChildrenhaving a baby/child
    • want (to have) a baby/a child/children/kids
    • start a family
    • conceive/be expecting/be going to have a baby/child
    • miss your period
    • become/get/ be/find out that you are pregnant
    • have a baby/a child/kids/a son/a daughter/twins/a family
    • have a normal/a difficult/an unwanted pregnancy; an easy/a difficult birth/labor
    • be in/go into/induce labor
    • have/suffer/cause a miscarriage
    • give birth to a child/a baby/a daughter/a son/twins
    parenting
    • bring up/raise a child/a family
    • care for/watch a baby/child/kid
    • change a diaper/a baby
    • nurse/feed/breastfeed/bottle-feed a baby
    • be entitled to/go on maternity/paternity leave
    • go back/return to work after maternity leave
    • need/find/get a babysitter/high-quality, affordable childcare/a nanny
    • balance/combine work and childcare/child-rearing/family (life)
    • educate/teach/home-school a child/a kid/children
    • punish/discipline/spoil a child/a kid/children
    • adopt/foster a baby/a child/a kid/children
    • offer a baby for/put a baby up for adoption
    • be placed with/be raised by foster parents
    see goddaughter, granddaughter, stepdaughter
  2. 2(literary) a woman who belongs to a particular place or country, etc. one of the town's most famous daughters
See daughter in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

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