different between daughter vs quean

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

English

Alternative forms

• quene (obsolete)
• queane (obsolete)
• quine (Scotland)

Etymology

From Middle English quene (“young, robust woman”), from Old English cwene (“woman, female serf”), from Proto-Germanic *kwen? (“woman”), from Proto-Indo-European *g??n (“woman”). Cognate with Dutch kween (“a barren woman, a barren cow”), Low German quene (“barren cow, heifer”), German Kon (“wife”), Swedish kvinna (“woman”), Icelandic kona (“woman”), Gothic ???????????????? (qin?, “woman”), ???????????????? (q?ns, “wife”). More at queen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kwi?n/
• Homophone: queen

Noun

quean (plural queans)

1. A woman, now especially an impudent or disreputable woman; a prostitute. [from 10th c.]
   • 1936: Like the Phoenix by Anthony Bertram

     However, terrible as it may seem to the tall maiden sisters of J.P.'s in Queen Anne houses with walled vegetable gardens, this courtesan, strumpet, harlot, whore, punk, fille de joie, street-walker, this trollop, this trull, this baggage, this hussy, this drab, skit, rig, quean, mopsy, demirep, demimondaine, this wanton, this fornicatress, this doxy, this concubine, this frail sister, this poor Queenie--did actually solicit me, did actually say 'coming home to-night, dearie' and my soul was not blasted enough to call a policeman.

2. (Scotland) A young woman, a girl; a daughter. [from 15th c.]
   • 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 30:

     Forbye the two queans there was the son, John Gordon, as coarse a devil as you'd meet, he'd already had two-three queans in trouble and him but barely eighteen years old.

Derived terms

• cuckquean

Anagrams

• quena

Scots

Alternative forms

• quine (Doric)

Etymology

From Old English cwene, from Proto-Germanic *kwen? (“woman”), from Proto-Indo-European *g??n (“woman”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kwin/, /kwen/, /kw?in/

Noun

quean (plural queans)

1. young woman, girl
2. daughter
3. maidservant
4. female sweetheart
5. (Shetland) A ram incapable of procreation, a hermaphrodite sheep.