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noun, plural chil·dren.
Idiom1.
a person between birth and full growth; a boy or girl: books for children.
2.
a son or daughter: All my children are married.
3.
a baby or infant.
4.
a human fetus.
5.
EXPANDa childish person: He's such a child about money.
6.
a descendant: a child of an ancient breed.
7.
any person or thing regarded as the product or result of particular agencies, influences, etc.: Abstract art is a child of the 20th century.
8.
a person regarded as conditioned or marked by a given circumstance, situation, etc.: a child of poverty; a child of famine.
9.
British Dialect Archaic. a female infant.
10.
COLLAPSEArchaic. childe.
11.
with child, pregnant: She's with child.
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Origin:
before 950; Middle English; Old English cild; akin to Gothic kilthai womb
before 950; Middle English; Old English cild; akin to Gothic kilthai womb
Related forms
child·less, adjective
child·less·ness, noun
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| child (tʃaɪld) | |
| —n , pl children | |
| 1. | a. a boy or girl between birth and puberty |
| b. (as modifier): child labour | |
| 2. | a baby or infant |
| 3. | an unborn babyRelated: paedo- |
| 4. | with child another term for pregnant |
| 5. | a human offspring; a son or daughterRelated: filial |
| 6. | a childish or immature person |
| 7. | a member of a family or tribe; descendant: a child of Israel |
| 8. | a person or thing regarded as the product of an influence or environment: a child of nature |
| 9. | dialect (Midland English), (Western English) a female infant |
| Related: paedo-, filial | |
| [Old English cild; related to Gothic kilthei womb, Sanskrit jathara belly, jartu womb] | |
| 'childless | |
| —adj | |
| 'childlessness | |
| —n | |
| 'childly | |
| —adj | |
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child
O.E. cild "child," from P.Gmc. *kiltham (source of Gothic kilþei "womb"), unrelated to other languages. Also in O.E. meaning "a youth of gentle birth" (archaic, usually written childe). In 16c., especially "girl child." The difficulty with the plural began in O.E., where the nom. pl. was at first
EXPANDcild, identical with the sing., then c.975 pl. form cildru (gen. cildra) arose, only to be re-pluraled c.1175 as children, which is thus a double plural. M.E. plural cildre survives in Lancashire dialect childer and in Childermas (c.1000) "festival of the Holy Innocents" (Dec. 28).
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child (chīld)
n.
A person between birth and puberty.
An unborn infant; a fetus.
An infant; a baby.
One who is childish or immature.
A son or daughter; an offspring.
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