word-vault/dist/data/cards/da/daughter.json

A lightweight JavaScript package for English word definitions and collections.

{
    "term": "daughter",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a person’s female child",
            "labels": "(especially US English)(especially North American English)(especially British English)(British English)(North American English)(especially British English)",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "We have two sons and a daughter."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a baby/teenage daughter"
                },
                {
                    "text": "They have three grown-up daughters."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She's the **eldest daughter** of an Oxford professor."
                },
                {
                    "text": "our **younger/youngest daughter**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Living alone and trying to bring up a small daughter is no easy task."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Family and relationships"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["baby", "infant", "newborn"],
                "verb + daughter": ["have", "bear", "give birth to"],
                "daughter + verb": ["grow up"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "a woman who belongs to a particular place or country, etc.",
            "labels": "(literary)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "one of the town’s most famous daughters"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈdɔːtə(r)/",
                "audio": "da/daughter/daughter__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈdɔːtər/",
                "audio": "da/daughter/daughter__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Old English dohtor, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch dochter and German Tochter, from an Indo-European root shared by Greek thugatēr."
}