different between children vs daughter

English

Alternative forms

• childer (archaic, except in Ireland)
• childs (nonstandard, rare)
• chillen (eye dialect)

Etymology

From Middle English children, alteration of earlier childre ("children"; > English dialectal childer), from Old English ?ildru, ?ildra (“children”), nominative and accusative plural of ?ild (“child”), equivalent to child +? -ren.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t???ld??n/
• (Southern American English, AAVE) IPA^(key): [t??l.??n]
• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): [?t???l.d??? ???n]
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): [?t???ld??? ???n] (alternative)
• Hyphenation: child?ren

Noun

children

1. plural of child.

Anagrams

• childern

Middle English

Noun

children

1. plural of child

English

Etymology

From Middle English doughter, from Old English dohtor, from Proto-West Germanic *dohter, from Proto-Germanic *duht?r, from Proto-Indo-European *d?ugh?t?r.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: dô?t?r, IPA^(key): /?d??t?(?)/
• (General American) enPR: dô't?r, IPA^(key): /?d?.t?/, /?d?.t??/, [?d?.??]
• (General American, cot–caught merger) enPR: dä't?r, IPA^(key): /?d?.t?/, [?d?.??]
• (Canada, cot–caught merger) enPR: dä't?r, IPA^(key): /?d?.t?/
• Rhymes: -??t?(?)
• Hyphenation: daugh?ter
• Homophone: dotter (in accents with the cot-caught merger)

Noun

daughter (plural daughters or (archaic) daughtren)

1. One’s female offspring.
2. A female descendant.
3. A daughter language.
4. (physics) A nuclide left over from radioactive decay.
5. (syntax, of a parse tree) A descendant.
6. (by extension) A female character of a creator.

Alternative forms

• dafter (obsolete)

Antonyms

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

Hypernyms

• child

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• aunt, uncle
• brother, sister
• cousin

Further reading

• daughter on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• guardeth