elder daughter

collocation in English

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daughter
noun[C]
uk
/ˈdɔː.tər/us
/ˈdɑː.t̬ɚ/
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Take anelderdaughterwho remains at home and looks after her parents and does ordinary household work.
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What ground is there to warrant you in saying the elder son shall inherit but theelderdaughtermay not?
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Myelderdaughterhas herself left home because she made that choice.
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Their married,elderdaughterhad to give up her home when she and her husband could not keep up the mortgage.
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Or again, if hiselderdaughterwas courting at the time, she would no doubt feel the need for a separate parlour.
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Myelderdaughterwas in higher education for two years and decided to give up her course and go out to earn her living.
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The 12th and 13th members of the family are the illegitimate children of theelderdaughter.
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The parents felt that this was in the interests of anelderdaughteraged 17.
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Mine could be summed up in something that myelderdaughtersaid to me.
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Theelderdaughterwatches the films at night, and they have a significant influence on her.
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Theirelderdaughterplanted a tree near the drive, and there is still a plaque there now.
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The poet is engaged to theelderdaughter.
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Indu tells her that she never stopped thinking of herelderdaughter.
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This is most notable in his treatment of hiselderdaughter, who has a debilitating illness (which contributes to her bad temper).
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By his second wife, he had one son and two daughters, of whom the son and theelderdaughterdied in his lifetime.
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Tell him to establish a relationship with you by giving hiselderdaughterin marriage to you and thus to obtain light from your light.
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Rosalind was theelderdaughter, and the second child in the family of five children.
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The two elder daughters went to school and participated in the collective worship and attended lessons in religious knowledge.
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One of my elder daughter's school friends was a nursing sister there for many years.
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