daughter of Eve
- noun
- Literature
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hija de Eva
- You mean to say that you're a Daughter of Eve?
Examples
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Welcome, Susan and Lucy, Daughters of Eve.
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The teacher praised every daughter of Eve for her contributions to the project.
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So, you are a daughter of Eve, huh?
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As the daughter of Lilith, the White Witch is determined to kill the sons of Adam and the daughters of Eve.
Blog text (23) -
It has long been foretold that two Sons of Adam and two Daughters of Eve will defeat the White Witch and restore peace to Narnia.
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Women were commonly described as "the daughters of Eve," the moral and intellectual inferiors of men, sexually depraved, continuously dissatisfied, and thus easily tempted by Satan.
Academic text (1992) -
Every daughter of Eve has her own unique story to tell.
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As a daughter of Eve, she felt a deep connection to the history of women.
Synonyms
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1.0
A female child of someone
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2.2
A female child of a person or animal, for example a daughter
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'daughter' (female child) of 'Eve' (the biblical first woman) yields 'a woman' or female human. For a B1 learner who knows the constituent words (including the reference to Eve), the overall sense is immediately derivable and matches common cross-linguistic ways of referring to humanity via a progenitor.
Etymology
Daughter of Eve comes from the Bible, where Eve is the first woman and later women were thought of as her daughters. So daughter of Eve now means 'a woman'.