This word, besides its natural and proper sense, is used to designate,

(1.) A niece or any female descendant (Genesis 20:12; 24:48; 28:6).

(2.) Women as natives of a place, or as professing the religion of a place; as, "the daughters of Zion" (Isaiah 3:16), "daughters of the Philistines" (2 Samuel 1:20).

(3.) Small towns and villages lying around a city are its "daughters," as related to the metropolis or mother city. Tyre is in this sense called the daughter of Sidon (Isaiah 23:12).

(4.) The people of Jerusalem are spoken of as "the daughters of Zion" (Isaiah 37:22).

(5.) The daughters of a tree are its boughs (Genesis 49:22).

(6.) The "daughters of music" (Ecclesiastes 12:4) are singing women.

Noah Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language

1. (n.) The female offspring of the human species; a female child of any age; -- applied also to the lower animals.

2. (n.) A female descendant; a woman.

3. (n.) A son's wife; a daughter-in-law.

4. (n.) A term of address indicating parental interest.