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Daughter vs Laughter - What's the difference?

daughter | laughter |

As nouns the difference between daughter and laughter

is that daughter is one’s female child while laughter is the sound of laughing, produced by air so expelled; any similar sound.

daughter

English

Alternative forms

* (obsolete) * (obsolete)

Noun

(wikipedia daughter) (en-noun)
  • One’s female child.
    • I already have a son, so I would like to have a daughter .
  • A female descendant.
  • A daughter language.
  • (physics) A nuclide left over from radioactive decay.

    • Derived terms

    * daughterboard * daughtercard/daughter card * daughter cell * daughter cyst * daughterling * daughter-in-law * daughter isotope * daughterly * daughter nuclide * daughter of the manse * give one's daughter away * goddaughter/god-daughter * granddaughter * great-granddaughter * kiss the gunner's daughter * scavenger's daughter * stepdaughter (daughter)

    Antonyms

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

    Hypernyms

    * child

    See also

    * aunt, uncle * brother, sister * cousin

    Statistics

    * 1000 English basic words

    laughter

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l) (obsolete)

    Noun

    (wikipedia laughter) (en-noun)
  • The sound of laughing, produced by air so expelled; any similar sound.
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  • A movement (usually involuntary) of the muscles of the laughing face, particularly of the lips, and of the whole body, with a peculiar expression of the eyes, indicating merriment, satisfaction or derision, and usually attended by a sonorous and interrupted expulsion of air from the lungs.
  • * (Thomas Browne) (1605-1682)
    • The act of laughter , which is a sweet contraction of the muscles of the face, and a pleasant agitation of the vocal organs, is not merely, or totally within the jurisdiction of ourselves.
  • * (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) (1807-1882)
    • Archly the maiden smiled, and with eyes overrunning with laughter .
  • (label) A reason for merriment.

    • Related terms

    * laugh