DAUGHTERとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: dôʹtər, IPA: /ˈdɔːtə(ɹ)/
• (General American) enPR: dô'tər, IPA: /ˈdɔ.tɚ/, /ˈdɔ.t̬ɚ/, [ˈdɔ.ɾɚ]
• (cot–caught merger) enPR: dä'tər, IPA: /ˈdɑ.tɚ/, [ˈdɑ.ɾɚ]
• (General Australian) enPR: dô'tŭ, IPA: /ˈdoːtɐ/
• Homophone: dotter (cot–caught merger)
• ハイフネーション: daugh‧ter
• 韻: -ɔːtə(ɹ)

名詞

daughter (plural daughters or (archaic) daughtren)

1. One’s female offspring.

   Synonym: girl

   I already have a son, so I would like to have a daughter.

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Leviticus 26:29, column 1:

     And ye ſhal eate the fleſh of your ſonnes, and the fleſh of your daughters ſhall ye eate.

   • 2021 September 24, Lauren M. Johnson and Christina Zdanowicz, “A gravestone missing for almost 150 years was being used as a marble slab to make fudge”, in CNN‎:

     They discovered Weller had two daughters and a daughter-in-law in the same cemetery.

   • 2025 April 2, Ben Morse, “‘Whoop, there she is!’: Jason and Kylie Kelce announce birth of fourth daughter”, in CNN‎:

     Finnley is the fourth daughter of Jason and Kylie Kelce, having already welcomed Wyatt, Elliotte and Bennett to the family.

2. A female descendant.

   Antonym: son

   • 1950 October, C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (fiction):

     Daughter of Eve from the far land of Spare Oom where eternal summer reigns around the bright city of War Drobe, how would it be if you came and had tea with me?

3. A daughter language.
4. (physics) A nuclide left over from radioactive decay.
5. (syntax, of a parse tree) A descendant.
   • 2013, Daniela Isac, Charles Reiss, “Chapter 7, Some details of sentence structure”, in I-Language: An Introduction to Linguistics as Cognitive Science, 2nd edition, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 163:

     We have distinguished two types of situations from the point of view of the placement of the obligatory X constituent within the phrase XP: one in which X is a daughter of XP, and one in which X is not a daughter of XP, but a daughter of one of the constituents of XP (in an adjunct configuration).

   • 2017, Yicheng Wu, “Chapter 2, The dynamics of language processing”, in The Interfaces of Chinese Syntax with Semantics and Pragmatics, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 17:

     Following the conventional pattern, the argument daughter of a node is assigned the index n0 and placed on the left side, and the functor daughter, the index n1, is placed on the right side.

6. (by extension) A female character of a creator.
7. (informal, uncommon, sometimes derogatory) A familiar address to a female person from an older or otherwise more authoritative person.

別の表記

• dafter (obsolete)

反意語

• (with regard to gender) son
• (with regard to ancestry) mother, father, parent

上位語

• child

派生語

派生した語

• Australian Kriol: doda

参考

• aunt, uncle
• brother, sister
• cousin

Further reading

• daughter on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

アナグラム

• guardeth