daughter
daughter 英 [ˈdɔ:tə(r)] 美 [ˈdɔtɚ]
n. 女儿
名词复数:daughters
- A daughter is a female offspring, and while it is usually referring to the female child's relationship to her parents, it might be used to suggest any similar relationship, such as the organization “Daughters of the American Revolution.”
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- n. 女儿
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1. We have two sons and a daughter.
我们有两儿一女。
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2. They have three grown-up daughters.
他们有三个成年的女儿。
- daughter (n.) Old English dohtor, from Proto-Germanic *dokhter, earlier *dhukter (source also of Old Saxon dohtar, Old Norse dottir, Old Frisian and Dutch dochter, German Tochter, Gothic dauhtar), from PIE *dhugheter (source also of Sanskrit duhitar-, Avestan dugeda-, Armenian dustr, Old Church Slavonic dušti, Lithuanian duktė, Greek thygater). The common Indo-European word, lost in Celtic and Latin (Latin filia "daughter" is fem. of filius "son"). The modern spelling evolved 16c. in southern England. Daughter-in-law is attested from late 14c.
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