daughter

Definition of daughternext
as in child
a female human born to parents Their youngest daughter graduated from college this year.

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Recent Examples of daughter In addition to the older children, there is a 9-year-old daughter and twins of 5, who were 4 at the time. Alan Gionet, CBS News, 28 May 2026 Walker joins as the imposing, entitled and humorless Peter Van Laar III, the wealthy heir to the Van Laar estate, whose behavior is a struggle for both his wife, Alice, and 13-year-old daughter. Matt Grobar, Deadline, 28 May 2026 My little daughter loves that song. Lucas Villa, Rolling Stone, 28 May 2026 Giuseppe’s daughter, Maria Carola, along with her brothers Filippo and Umberto, work alongside Picchiotti senior. Kyle Roderick, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for daughter
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Noun
  • Whether a minor or an adult, that child has lost a parent and has a right to mourn and needs the mother to be there.
    Abigail Van Buren, Boston Herald, 30 May 2026
  • More strikes were reported in southern Lebanon earlier today, with the country’s state-run National News Agency (NNA) reporting that civil defense teams recovered the bodies of four people, including children, after an airstrike hit a residential house in the town of Adloun.
    Alayna Treene, CNN Money, 30 May 2026
Noun
  • Teen Choice Awards for her time as iconic mean girl Blair Waldorf on Gossip Girl?
    Joe Reid, Vulture, 29 May 2026
  • Hester referred to Suski signing onto a friend of the court brief in support of a suit challenging West Virginia's law banning transgender girls from competing on female high school or college teams.
    Ryan Anderson, Arkansas Online, 29 May 2026
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  • School kids arrived on field trips and groups lined up for exhibitions, taking the escalators up past the abstract artist Julie Mehretu’s vibrant, 83-foot-tall vertical window.
    Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Money, 4 June 2026
  • Bell-to-bell phone bans are among the strategies proposed in a new Surgeon General's advisory warning of the threat excessive screen time can pose to kids.
    N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 3 June 2026

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“Daughter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/daughter. Accessed 5 Jun. 2026.

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