noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a baby son/daughter/brother/sister
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We’d like a baby brother or sister for Ben.
elder brother/son/sister/daughter etc
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His elder son Liam became a lawyer.
eldest son/daughter/brother/child etc
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My eldest daughter is 17.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
elder
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Nenna was struck by the difference in her elder daughter since she had seen her last.
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Bruch suggests that a significantly large proportion of anorexics are eldest or elder daughters .
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Inside the caravan her elder daughter was pushing at the door to come out.
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It took me a while to realise that the elder daughter had only a stump instead of a left arm.
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His elder daughters , seventeen-year-old Nancy and fourteen-year-old Ella, were round all over.
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Kate and John's two elder daughters , Jemima and Jenny, particularly enjoy this part of Christmas.
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Terry wrote out messages for his girlfriend Madeleine and their daughter Sulome, his elder daughter Gabrielle and for his sister Peggy.
eldest
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In the years that followed, Mary's eldest daughter went to Bible college to train for the mission field.
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He had to pay when his eldest daughter was married. 4.
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Grimsdale's eldest daughter cleaned the room briefly with a broom and the rest of the children scurried about the house.
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Their eldest daughter , Elizabeth, 15, tried to commit suicide.
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A week later villagers found the corpse of his eldest daughter , 12, by the creek.
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This couple have four or five kids and their eldest daughter is about seventeen.
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Bruch suggests that a significantly large proportion of anorexics are eldest or elder daughters .
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In 1874 he married Lelia, eldest daughter of Leon Serena of Venice.
old
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Well, according to Mummy Hawn, at 33 Chris is too old for her daughter .
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The woman was accused of having beaten her four-year-#old daughter when the daughter refused to be quiet.
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A brother or sister for the couple's five-year-#old daughter Hailie might not be imminent, though.
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The couple also have a 1-year-#old daughter .
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Andy Barnes, his 15 year old daughter , Paula.
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Their 16-year-#old daughter , Chelsea, stood by proudly.
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We were staying with our 17 year old daughter Rachel at Club Portinatx.
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I punished my 11-year-#old daughter the other day.
only
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As you know Annabelle is our only daughter , so this will be our only chance to stage such a lovely wedding.
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The Richards had an only daughter , Ann, who inherited the house.
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Her only daughter , the apple of her eye, had been brawling in the street.
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Her gaze lighted on her only daughter and her face softened.
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She'd lost her husband and her only daughter and didn't want anything to happen to her only granddaughter.
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He's thought of changing his will and his investments - but she is his only daughter .
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She's my only daughter and I took out an endowment for her at birth in preparation for this.
young
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Some of the more sensational reports claimed that Misrati had used his attractive young daughter to gain access to information.
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He certainly did not treat her as a little princess, a status that youngest daughters in some families enjoy.
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My youngest daughter is four and I've been told she's got worms.
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In one example, a couple whose young daughter had died had her image erased from a family photo.
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To her horror, when she returned the Vauxhall Cavalier had vanished with her young daughter still inside.
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She lived with the famed guitarist for six years and bore his youngest daughter , now 8.
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She is unemployed, and bringing up two young daughters on benefits.
■ NOUN
baby
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Within moments of our first encounter, he has whipped out a Photo-Me booth shot of his newborn baby daughter .
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She found her baby daughter crying, spattered with blood, and her husband dying on the floor.
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The father was found guilty of the manslaughter of his baby daughter of three months.
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Their baby daughter was brought up by an aunt, a Mrs Reed of Gateshead.
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Last year Viscount Althorp presented his new baby daughter , Kitty.
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This series ended with the birth of Frank and Betty's baby daughter , Jessica.
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Chamoun's baby daughter survived the assault.
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Mr Lewis, the mechanic, for example, soon managed to quieten my baby daughter Rachel while I was out of the room.
■ VERB
born
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On 26 November 1986 their only child was born , a daughter , T., the subject of these proceedings.
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He spoke about Hadassah's background as the Prague-#born daughter of Holocaust survivors.
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It was into this lawless milieu that Devi was born , the second daughter of a low-caste illiterate farmer.
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Charles and Micki Browning, both hospital employees, stayed home with their prematurely born daughter .
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There two children were born , a daughter , Agnes, who soon died, and a son, Axel.
die
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When she died , the daughter was an obvious successor.
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They had two sons who died young and three daughters .
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The son has since died and the daughter has handed over her interests in the case to lawyers.
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That was an independent province until Duke Francis died , leaving his daughter Anne as his only heir.
marry
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At the time he was not counting on a schoolteacher to floor him by marrying his only daughter , his only child.
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In 1888 he married Maud, daughter of Charles Hindle, Brighton hotelier.
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Browne married Martha, daughter of Henry Tilden, gentleman, in 1616.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
foster child/son/daughter
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And then they went into this foster children um, having a home for foster children.
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As a result, the report said, one in 10 foster children remains in the system for more than seven years.
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Other foster children with happy memories did the same, though distance and new relationships combined to make contact sporadic.
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Roland then removed the spell from himself and the good foster daughter.
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The witch was able to see her foster daughter and Roland fleeing because of her magic powers.
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These foster children are not available for adoption.
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These are establishments which, for a fee, will undertake to foster children of very tender years.
grown children/daughter/son
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I had two grown daughters, and when I lost the first one, this one became the apple of my eye.
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See more of his grown daughter and son.
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Seeing photographs of Rubilove Willcox Aiu in newspapers last Sunday was unexpected and bewildering for her grown children.
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Tall, slender and divorced, Sheila had-incredibly-two grown sons.
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The senator, 72, has a grown daughter by his former wife but is of grandfatherly vintage now.
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Yet her husband, laid off from his job as a messenger, and her grown children are unemployed.
middle brother/child/daughter etc
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My middle daughter was like that, tall and slim and you could hardly tell.
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My older brother played Elvis music at his wedding, and my middle brother and I rolled our eyes.
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Now, for the middle child.
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Richard Nixon: A middle child who became known for diplomacy in foreign affairs, among other things.
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The wronged self Peter is the middle child of five.
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They may send the middle children to Jessy's parents in an attempt to get the eldest through secondary school.
prodigal son/daughter
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A prodigal daughter, I had learned in only one day, I was not.
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A final provocative statement from a life-long prankster, a prodigal son of Harvard, it seems so fitting.
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He is a classic modern tough guy as well as being an Old Testament prodigal son.
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The prodigal son had returned to Parkhead.
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The prodigal son will feast with harlots no more.
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The parable of the prodigal son conveys at a conscious level a message about the need for forgiveness and acceptance.
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The play, very moral in tone throughout, is a reworking of the theme of the return of the prodigal son.
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When the music stopped, Gary concentrated on the parable of the prodigal son.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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English is a daughter language of German and Latin.
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In traditional societies, parents were often reluctant to send their daughters to school.
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My aunt has five daughters and three sons.
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Our youngest daughter is getting married next month.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But perhaps to avoid being carried away by nostalgia, he wisely left the bidding to his wife and daughter .
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How have I failed to retrieve my own daughter from the stranger she has become?
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It was a bright pink crooked pena novelty item that belonged to my daughter .
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Now she was raising grandchildren while her daughters froze in Boston and Montreal.
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They had four sons and four daughters.
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This was the same machine who had computed so many of the calculations involved in designing his daughter .
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When the daughters were ten, their talent was recognized by a well-known theatrical director.