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CHILD
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Irregular inflected form: children
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A young person of either sex
Example:
'tiddler' is a British term for youngster
Synonyms:
child; fry; kid; minor; nestling; nipper; shaver; small fry; tiddler; tike; tyke; youngster
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("child" is a kind of...):
juvenile; juvenile person (a young person, not fully developed)
Meronyms (parts of "child"):
child's body (the body of a human child)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "child"):
street child; waif (a homeless child especially one forsaken or orphaned)
urchin (poor and often mischievous city child)
bambino; toddler; tot; yearling (a young child)
sprog (a child)
silly (a word used for misbehaving children)
kindergartener; kindergartner; preschooler (a child who attends a preschool or kindergarten)
poster child (a child afflicted by some disease or deformity whose picture is used on posters to raise money for charitable purposes)
picaninny; piccaninny; pickaninny ((ethnic slur) offensive term for a Black child)
peanut (a young child who is small for his age)
orphan (a child who has lost both parents)
kiddie; kiddy (informal term for a young child)
imp; monkey; rapscallion; rascal; scalawag; scallywag; scamp (one who is playfully mischievous)
foster-child; foster child; fosterling (a child who is raised by foster parents)
child prodigy; infant prodigy; wonder child (a prodigy whose talents are recognized at an early age)
changeling (a child secretly exchanged for another in infancy)
buster (a robust child)
bairn (a child: son or daughter)
Derivation:
childhood (the state of a child between infancy and adolescence)
childhood (the time of person's life when they are a child)
childly (befitting a young child)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A human offspring (son or daughter) of any age
Example:
they were able to send their kids to college
Synonyms:
child; kid
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("child" is a kind of...):
issue; offspring; progeny (the immediate descendants of a person)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "child"):
army brat (the child of a career officer of the United States Army)
babe; baby; infant (a very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk)
female offspring (a child who is female)
male offspring; man-child (a child who is male)
stepchild (a child of your spouse by a former marriage)
Holonyms ("child" is a member of...):
family; family unit (primary social group; parents and children)
Antonym:
parent (a father or mother; one who begets or one who gives birth to or nurtures and raises a child; a relative who plays the role of guardian)
Sense 3
Meaning:
An immature childish person
Example:
stop being a baby!
Synonyms:
baby; child
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("child" is a kind of...):
individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)
Derivation:
childhood (the state of a child between infancy and adolescence)
Sense 4
Meaning:
A member of a clan or tribe
Example:
the children of Israel
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("child" is a kind of...):
descendant; descendent (a person considered as descended from some ancestor)
Context examples:
And to her, just then, he was the hurt child, the infatuated man striving to achieve the impossible.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
The World Health Organization reports more than 90 percent, or nearly 2 billion children under the age of 15, breathe toxic air every day.
(WAir Pollution a Health Risk for Children, Lisa Schlein/VOA)
Combining a 16-week initial course of the medication omalizumab with oral immunotherapy (OIT) greatly improves the efficacy of OIT for children with allergies to multiple foods, new clinical trial findings show.
(Omalizumab improves efficacy of oral immunotherapy for multiple food allergies, National Institutes of Health)
They reminded him of children gathered about a spread table and awaiting permission to begin to eat.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
A satellite developed by junior high school children from Ubatuba, São Paulo state, was launched to the International Space Station (ISS) from Tanegashima Space Center, Japan, on Friday (Dec. 9).
(Satellite made by Brazilian junior high students launched in Japan, Agência Brasil)
He lifted the little child, kissed her, and then, still carrying her, he held his other hand out to his wife and turned towards the door.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
If you are attached, you may decide to have another baby or to help a child you already have with special lessons.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
My mistress had a daughter of nine years old, a child of towardly parts for her age, very dexterous at her needle, and skilful in dressing her baby.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Heir and only child, Lord Saltire.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
"I am so tired, so tired," he would murmur, rolling his head back and forth on the pillow like a peevish child.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
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