Hypertext Webster Gateway: "daughter"
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.
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[=o]ttir, Sw.
dotter, Dan. dotter, datter, Goth. da['u]htar,, OSlav.
d[u^]shti, Russ. doche, Lith. dukt[=e], Gr. qyga`thr, Zend.
dughdhar, Skr. duhit[.r]; 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 WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
daughter
n : a female human offspring; "her daughter cared for her in her
old age" [syn: {girl}] [ant: {son}, {son}]
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