/ ˈdɔːtə(r); NAmE / noun
1.
a person's female child :
We have two sons and a daughter.
They have three grown-up daughters.
She's the daughter of an Oxford professor.
—see also god-daughter , granddaughter , stepdaughter
2.
( literary ) a woman who belongs to a particular place or country, etc. :
one of the town's most famous daughters
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WORD ORIGIN
Old English dohtor , of Germanic origin; related to Dutch dochter and German Tochter , from an Indo-European root shared by Greek thugatēr .