Definition of child Child
/ʧajˈld/ - [chayld] - child
We found 26 definitions of child from 9 different sources.
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What does child mean?
WordNet
NounPlural: children |
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| child - a young person of either sex; "she writes books for children"; "they're just kids"; "`tiddler' is a British term for youngster" | ||
| kid, youngster, minor, shaver, nipper, small fry, tiddler, tike, tyke, fry, nestling | ||
| juvenile, juvenile person a young person, not fully developed | ||
| child's body the body of a human child | ||
| bairn a child: son or daughter | ||
| buster a person (or thing) that breaks up or overpowers something; "dam buster"; "sanction buster"; "crime buster" | ||
| changeling a child secretly exchanged for another in infancy | ||
| child prodigy, infant prodigy, wonder child a prodigy whose talents are recognized at an early age; "Mozart was a child prodigy" | ||
| foster-child, foster child, fosterling a child who is raised by foster parents | ||
| scamp, imp, monkey, rapscallion, rascal, scalawag, scallywag one who is playfully mischievous | ||
| kiddy a young child | ||
| orphan a young animal without a mother | ||
| peanut pod of the peanut vine containing usually 2 nuts or seeds; `groundnut' and `monkey nut' are British terms | ||
| picaninny, piccaninny, pickaninny (ethnic slur) offensive term for a Black child | ||
| poster child a child afflicted by some disease or deformity whose picture is used on posters to raise money for charitable purposes; "she was the poster child for muscular dystrophy" | ||
| kindergartener, kindergartner, preschooler a child who attends a preschool or kindergarten | ||
| silly a word used for misbehaving children; "don't be a silly" | ||
| sprog a child | ||
| bambino, toddler, tot, yearling a young child | ||
| urchin poor and often mischievous city child | ||
| child - a human offspring (son or daughter) of any age; "they had three children"; "they were able to send their kids to college" | ||
| kid | ||
| parent an organism (plant or animal) from which younger ones are obtained | ||
| progeny, offspring, issue something that comes into existence as a result; "industrialism prepared the way for acceptance of the French Revolution's various socialistic offspring"; "this skyscraper is the solid materialization of his efforts" | ||
| family unit, family primary social group; parents and children; "he wanted to have a good job before starting a family" | ||
| army brat the child of a career officer of the United States Army | ||
| infant, babe, baby a project of personal concern to someone; "this project is his baby" | ||
| female offspring a child who is female | ||
| male offspring, man-child a child who is male | ||
| child - an immature childish person; "he remained a child in practical matters as long as he lived"; "stop being a baby!" | ||
| baby | ||
| mortal, somebody, someone, individual, person, soul a single organism | ||
| child - a member of a clan or tribe; "the children of Israel" | ||
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Wiktionary 
- child (Noun)
A daughter or son; an offspring. - child (Noun)
An offspring; one born in, or considered a product of the culture of, a place. - child (Noun)
A member of a tribe, a people or a race of beings; one born into or considered a product of a people. - child (Noun)
A thing or abstraction derived from or caused by something. - child (Noun)
A person who is below the age of adulthood; a minor. - child (Noun)
A data item, process or object which has a subservient or derivative role relative to another data item, process or object.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- child (n.)
A son or a daughter; a male or female descendant, in the first degree; the immediate progeny of human parents; -- in law, legitimate offspring. Used also of animals and plants. - child (n.)
A descendant, however remote; -- used esp. in the plural; as, the children of Israel; the children of Edom. - child (n.)
One who, by character of practice, shows signs of relationship to, or of the influence of, another; one closely connected with a place, occupation, character, etc.; as, a child of God; a child of the devil; a child of disobedience; a child of toil; a child of the people. - child (n.)
A noble youth. See Childe. - child (n.)
A young person of either sex. esp. one between infancy and youth; hence, one who exhibits the characteristics of a very young person, as innocence, obedience, trustfulness, limited understanding, etc. - child (n.)
A female infant. - child (v. i.)
To give birth; to produce young.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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Living being as genetically proceeding from an other one. -
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A person below the age of puberty. -
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An entity that is narrower in scope.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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chīld, n. an infant or very young person: (Shak.) a female infant: one intimately related to one older: expressing origin or relation, e.g. child of the East, child of shame, child of God, &c.: a disciple: a youth of gentle birth, esp. in ballads, &c.—sometimes Childe and Chylde: (pl.) offspring: descendants: inhabitants:—pl. Chil′dren.—ns. Child′-bear′ing, the act of bringing forth children; Child′bed, the state of a woman brought to bed with child; Child′birth, the giving birth to a child: parturition; Child′-crow′ing, a nervous affection with spasm of the muscles closing the glottis.—adj. Child′ed (Shak.), possessed of a child.—n. Child′hood, state of being a child: the time of one's being a child.—adjs. Child′ing (Shak.), fruitful, teeming; Child′ish, of or like a child: silly: trifling.—adv. Child′ishly.—ns. Child′ishness, Child′ness, what is natural to a child: puerility.—adjs. Child′less, without children; Child′-like, like a child: becoming a child: docile: innocent.—n. Child′-wife, a very young wife.—Child's play, something very easy to do: something slight.—From or Of a Child, since the days of childhood.—Second childhood, the childishness of old age.—With child, pregnant, e.g. Get with child, Be or Go with child. [A.S. cild, pl. cild, later cildru, -ra. The Ger. equivalent word is kind.]
Vulgar Tongue DictionaryDictionary of the Vulgar Tongue 👅
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To eat a child; to partake of a treat given to the parish officers, in part of commutation for a bastard child the common price was formerly ten pounds and a greasy chin. See GREASY CHIN.
Proverbs DictionaryProverbs Dictionary 📗
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Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it. -
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A child may have too much of his mother's blessing.
Wikipedia 
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A child (one child, two or more children) is someone who is not an adult yet, or a person who has not reached puberty. A person younger than 15 years old is usually called a child. A baby that is not yet born is often called a child, too. A person can be called his or her parent's child, no matter how old he or she is.
In most countries, children go to school. Also, smaller children may enjoy going to play-time groups and also playing with small toys and using their imaginations to make their days more fun. But in other countries, children work in factories or in the fields with their parents or guardians.
When two people get married and one (or both) of them have children with someone else before they got married, that child is called a "step child" by the child's non- birth parent. If both people had children, the children of each parent are "step brothers" or "step sisters" of each other.
Other uses.
The word child is sometimes used to mean something which comes 'from something' in some way. For example in mathematics a group may be the 'child' of another bigger group.
Part of speech
🔤- child, noun, singular of children.
