<p><strong>noun</strong></p><ul><li>a female child or person in relation to her parents.</li><li>any female descendant.</li><li>a person related as if by the ties binding daughter to parent: daughter of the church.</li><li>anything personified as female and considered with respect to its origin: The United States is the daughter of the 13 colonies.</li><li>Chemistry, Physics: an isotope formed by radioactive decay of another isotope.</li></ul><p><strong>adjective</strong></p><ul><li>Biology: pertaining to a cell or other structure arising from division or replication: daughter cell; daughter DNA.</li></ul>