daughters
DAW-turz/ˈdɔ.tɚz/UKDAW-tuhz/ˈdɔːtəz/
- 1Plural of daughter.
The king had no sons, only daughters.
Both daughters inherited their mother's love of music.
Note
The plural is regular, a plain -s added to the singular, and it carries every meaning of daughter, not only children in a family. A linguist can speak of the daughters of a parent language, and a physicist of the daughters left behind by radioactive decay. In writing, keep the possessives apart: one daughter's room, but both daughters' rooms, with the apostrophe after the s.
daughters is a form of daughter
daughter, noun: One's female offspring. Full entry
- Forms
- daughterdaughters plural
- Spelling
- daughter → daughters: add -s
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