child.
A person who has not yet reached adulthood, whether natural (puberty), cultural (initiation), or legal (majority).
Meaning & usage
A person who has not yet reached adulthood, whether natural (puberty), cultural (initiation), or legal (majority).
Go easy on him: he is but a child.
Regular chores can be appropriate for children, given age-appropriate limits on difficulty level and time on task.
A person who has not yet reached adulthood, whether natural (puberty), cultural (initiation), or legal (majority). A youth aged 1 to 9 years, whereas neonates are aged 0 to 1 month, infants are aged 1 to 12 months, and adolescents are aged 10 to 20 years.
One's direct descendant by birth, regardless of age; one's offspring; a son or daughter.
My youngest child is forty-three this year.
His adult children visit him yearly.
The thirteenth Lenormand card.
A figurative offspring A person considered a product of a place or culture, a member of a tribe or culture, regardless of age.
the children of Israel
He is a child of his times.
A figurative offspring Anything derived from or caused by something.
A figurative offspring A data item, process, or object which has a subservient or derivative role relative to another.
The child node then stores the actual data of the parent node.
Alternative form of childe (“youth of noble birth”).
A subordinate node of a tree.
An adult or adolescent with childish or stupid behaviors.
My husband is such a child, going out with his sled everytime it snows.
A female child, a girl.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English child, from Old English ċild, from Proto-West Germanic *kilþ, *kelþ, from Proto-Germanic *kelþaz (“womb; fetus”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵelt- (“womb”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to ball up, amass”). Cognate with Danish kuld (“brood, litter”), Swedish kull (“brood, litter”), Icelandic kelta, kjalta (“lap”), Gothic 𐌺𐌹𐌻𐌸𐌴𐌹 (kilþei, “womb”), Sanskrit जर्त (jarta), जर्तु (jártu, “vulva”).
To give birth; to beget or procreate.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English childen, from the noun child.
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