daughter
part of speech
noun (daughter, daughters)
meaning for a pupil
A daughter is a girl or woman who is someone's child. tree →
sense in the lessons
a person in age and sharing problems; in families: a daughter and a son are sister and brother; in stories: a king's daughter is a princess; phrases: «only daughter», «eldest daughter», «mother and daughter»
examples
- The mother is 30 and her daughter is 6. tree →
- He gives each daughter $5. tree →
- She has 3 daughters. tree →
- How old will the daughter be in 4 years? tree →
- The baker's daughter helped in the shop on Saturdays. tree →
- Mrs Brown and her daughter look very alike. tree →
- In the story, the king's youngest daughter was the bravest. tree →
- Mother and daughter went shopping together. tree →
- "Well, daughter! have you enjoyed yourself?" tree →
note
Ages grow by the same years for all. Each daughter marks equal shares (gives each of 3 daughters $5 → $15). Spelling trap: d-a-u-g-h-t-e-r (the «gh» is silent).
In the corpora
- An old Crab tells her daughter "never to lose your temper", and the daughter snaps "Hold your tongue, Ma!
- The gaoler's kind daughter, who loves animals, asks to look after him.
- Mole's made-up story: «My daughter, she washes for Mr.
- Next day Chloe's mum came in to complain that her daughter's head had been sore for days.
- In Swansea, when Evie visits Dad, his partner's daughter Delphine has her own room and Evie sleeps on the sofa bed.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «daughter» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.