different between mom vs daughter

English

Alternative forms

• mam
• Mom
• mum, Mum (Australian, British, Irish)

Etymology

Abbreviation of momma.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /m?m/
• (US) enPR: m?m, IPA^(key): /m?m/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /m?m/
• Rhymes: -?m

Noun

mom (plural moms)

1. (Canada, US, West Midlands, colloquial, familiar) mother.
2. (informal) An adult female owner of a pet.

Verb

mom (third-person singular simple present moms, present participle momming or moming, simple past and past participle mommed or momed)

1. (informal) To care in a motherly way.

Usage notes

• "Mom" is capitalized when used as a proper noun, but not when used as a common noun:

  I think Mom likes my new car.

  I think my mom will like you.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• Mother’s Day
• Appendix:American Dialect Society words of the year

Anagrams

• MMO

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

mom f or m or n (plural mommen, diminutive mommetje n)

1. mask
2. a specific kind of beer

Derived terms

• mombakkes
• mommer
• vermommen

Nisenan

Noun

mom

1. water

References

• Andrew Eatough, Central Hill Nisenan Texts with Grammatical Sketch

White Hmong

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m????/

Etymology

Compare Mandarin ? (mào).

Noun

mom

1. hat

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