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Collins English-Chinese Dictionary
- daughter ['dɔːtər]
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noun
[c]
女儿
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1.
noun
[c]
女儿
Comprehensive English-Chinese Dictionary
Collins English-English Dictionary
- daughter ['dɔːtə]
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1.
n
a female offspring; a girl or woman in relation to her parents
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2.
n
a female descendant
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3.
n
a female from a certain country, etc, or one closely connected with a certain environment, etc
- a daughter of the church
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4.
n
[often capital]
[archaic]
a form of address for a girl or woman
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5.
modifier
[biology]
denoting a cell or unicellular organism produced by the division of one of its own kind
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6.
modifier
[physics]
(of a nuclide) formed from another nuclide by radioactive decay
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7.
modifier
[Etymology]
Old English dohtor; related to Old High German tohter daughter, Greek thugat
e r, Sanskrit duhitá
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1.
n
a female offspring; a girl or woman in relation to her parents
Examples
- to betroth a daughter
- 把女儿许配给 → betroth
- a daughter of France
- 法国女儿 → daughter
- to give a daughter in marriage
- 把女儿嫁出 → give
- Son and daughter are heteronymous.
- 儿子和女儿是异名(关连词)。 → heteronymous
- daughter mine
- 我的女儿 → mine1possessive pronominal
- Her daughter is very musical.
- 她女儿热爱音乐。
- My daughter is a patient of Dr. Smith.
- 我女儿是史密斯大夫的病人。
- He's got such a pretty daughter.
- 他竟然有个这么漂亮的女儿。 → pretty
- The courts have ruled my daughter is guilty.
- 法院裁决我的女儿有罪。 → rule
- She never realized her daughter had a drug addiction.
- 她从来没发现自己的女儿是个瘾君子。 → addiction
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