Definitions for daughter

daughter daugh·ter

Spelling: [daw-ter]
IPA: /ˈdɔ tər/

Daughter is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 313 anagrams from letters in daughter (adeghrtu).

Definitions for daughter

noun

  1. a female child or person in relation to her parents.
  2. any female descendant.
  3. a person related as if by the ties binding daughter to parent:
  4. anything personified as female and considered with respect to its origin:
  5. Chemistry, Physics. an isotope formed by radioactive decay of another isotope.

adjective

  1. Biology. pertaining to a cell or other structure arising from division or replication:

Origin of daughter

before 950; Middle English doughter, Old English dohtor; cognate with German Tochter, Greek thygátēr, Sanskrit duhitā

Examples for daughter

He was rich and he was willing to take the daughter without a single penny.

But, my daughter, why is it that the commands of Phidias would have made you unhappy?

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

They were across the street from a fire station, close enough for his daughter to yell for help.

Mr. Paine and his daughter were present, and Halbert Davis also.

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

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

Her daughter, Elaina, 24, a trained costume designer and makeup artist, helps out by sewing clothes.

Eucoline, the daughter of Agatho, attended me, carrying a lighted torch.

On a morning late in May Mrs. Bines and her daughter were at breakfast.

Word Value for daughter
Scrable

13

Words with friends

14

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