The difference between Child and Daughter
When used as nouns, child means a person who has not yet reached adulthood, whether natural (puberty), cultural (initiation), or legal (majority), whereas daughter means one's female offspring.
check bellow for the other definitions of Child and Daughter
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Child as a noun:
A person who has not yet reached adulthood, whether natural (puberty), cultural (initiation), or legal (majority)
Examples:
"Go easy on him: he is but a child."
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Child as a noun:
a female child, a girl.
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Child as a noun:
One's son or daughter, regardless of age.
Examples:
"My youngest child is forty-three."
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Child as a noun (cartomancy):
The thirteenth Lenormand card.
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Child as a noun (computing):
A figurative offspring, particularly: A person considered a product of a place or culture, a member of a tribe or culture, regardless of age. Anything derived from or caused by something. A data item, process, or object which has a subservient or derivative role relative to another.
Examples:
"The children of Israel."
"He is a child of his times."
"Poverty, disease, and despair are the children of war."
"The child node then stores the actual data of the parent node."
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Daughter as a noun:
One's female offspring.
Examples:
"I already have a son, so I would like to have a daughter."
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Daughter as a noun:
A female descendant.
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Daughter as a noun:
A daughter language.
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Daughter as a noun (physics):
A nuclide left over from radioactive decay.
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Daughter as a noun (by extension):
a female character of a creator