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children

[chil-druhn]

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noun

plural of child.

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Some people need children as part of a marriage and some don't.

The government promised that all children at the others would be found new schools.

Teaching your kids about recycling can be difficult, because the concept is often fairly abstract for younger children.

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Some people need children as part of a marriage and some don't.

The government promised that all children at the others would be found new schools.

Teaching your kids about recycling can be difficult, because the concept is often fairly abstract for younger children.

Teco shows more interest in objects than in his family-much as autistic children do.

Children imagine, discover and learn in dozens of interactive exhibits and daily educational programs.

With space for lounging and for the children to play, the garden has provided more enjoyment than the couple ever expected.

No two children can be supported in exactly the same way.

Psychotherapy for children and adolescents does not generally receive much attention from the public.

Such children believe that their friends who were killed had lost their immunity by touching women, swearing or stealing.

Most autistic children are not diagnosed as such until they are three years old, and by then valuable time has already been lost.

Children understand and use sarcasm by the time they get to kindergarten.

Hiking with llamas may be the best possible way to see the backcountry with young children.

Children disconnected from the natural world no doubt have a scientifically skewed conception of nature.

About a third of their children under the age of five are moderately or severely malnourished.

Every year, more than one million children under the age of five die as a result of diarrhoea.

It used to be the leading cause of bacterial meningitis in children.

Sunflowers grow quickly and are easy to tend?that's why they're favorites with children.

Robots can help children become smarter and happier.

Bribing children to stay at school seems odd, but it is not unique.

Men who don't have children may be at increased risk of dying from heart disease, a new study says.

Their party plans include a whole separate children's menu-grown in gardens the children tend themselves.

Doctors can now prescribe a growth hormone for children who are short but otherwise in good health.

The children of marriage parents do much better on nearly every scale of health, education, wellbeing and more.

The musical family uses it as a stage where their two young children and friends can put on performances.

In recent years, there has been a marked decrease in the physical activity levels of children.

Children may make fewer memory errors when recalling an event.

No children or chickens were injured during the collapse, and all the sprouts survived.

Most fears of antidepressant use in children focuses on the risk of suicidal behavior, or their unexpected short-term effects.

Children who receive unequal treatment are more likely to grow into depressed adults.

Keep an open dialogue with your children about their internet usage and whom they talk to.

Contrary to what many people believe, highly intelligent children are not necessarily destined for academic success.

Often adults think that children and youth don't have the capacity to express themselves or make good decisions.

State programs leave underinsured children behind as number and cost of vaccines rises.

While dyslexic children may struggle in the early grades, they often grow into gifted story tellers, inventors and entrepreneurs.

Researchers hope finding will encourage parents to vaccinate children.

So it turns out that, whoops, now we've got to make sober calls about what sort of entertainment is good or bad for our children.

On the way to learning that one thing can represent another, young children often conflate the real item and its symbol.

Tips on what children and parents can do together to decrease their carbon footprint.

Children born through this process of artificial selection were raised communally and maternal bonding was discouraged.

Young children can crudely add and subtract numbers before they have learned the rules of arithmetic, a new study finds.

They found that a majority of children who qualified for an initial diagnosis had lost their diagnosis by two years later.

Children cannot be made to fit any one model nor even many models, only their own.

Children with autism often focus intently on a single activity or feature of their environment.

Briski ended up giving some of the children cameras and teaching them photography.

Increasingly, parents have seen their children forced to contend with the fear of automatic flush toilets.

So many older children are crying out for some real attention from a parent.

On our way out of town local children were singing.

Froese looked on as the children mixed cement in exact proportions in a wheelbarrow-a hands-on math lesson.

Some children from poor families may be receiving powerful drugs because it is deemed a cheaper way to treat a problem.

Much of the negative effect of divorce on children actually occurs before.

They also divided their subjects into those who had been maltreated as children and those who had not.

Children should update their high-frequency word books with any new words they find.

Research shows that children born with the help of reproductive technology might be.

Children run to touch the exhibits and no one bats an eye.

Audio therapy could help dyslexic children read by rewiring their brains.

It is that time of year when reports come in of children dying of hyperthermia, after being locked in sweltering cars.

The book was dangerous because children and parents would think it was okay to give kids aspirin.

Nevertheless, he was a womaniser with uncalculated conquests and seven known children.

Next, have children write the high-frequency words from the story on cards.

They live under woefully desperate conditions, but street children may be better off than once thought.

Adults and children work together to build a play house.

The left and right are both cynically exploiting children to advance their own ideological agendas.

The government is hiring investigators and raising fines on farmers who hire children and underpay workers.

Children can complete the rest of the graph independently.

Seeing someone else's sleepy facial contortions does not affect young children or kids with autism.

Children are being smothered by virtual entertainment and controlled environments.

The vast majority of homeschooled children perform as well as or better than the average of children in their state.

If so, invite children to explain why they want to change their answer.

Even the youngest children know, experience and learn far more than scientists ever thought possible.

The mother worried constantly about their two young children because of the bombings and shootings.

Docent-led tours of the garden are available for school children in grades two through five.

Children and adults size up objects differently, giving youngsters protection.

Years later, the children went public about how miserable their lives had.

Tell me a tale about a wicked stepmother who has two children who.

Children who spend time watching movies/tv tend to re-enact these stories when they play.

Parents ignore the advice of doctors and experts and refuse to vaccinate their children against deadly diseases.

Do some basic prep work before asking young children to help you.

If you don't know the answer to a question, say so, and if possible work together with your children to find the answer.

She was essentially wondering why some children don't grow up with the benefit of mothers and.

Tell me a tale about a wicked stepmother who has two children who run away to the woods.

Controlling parents tend to have children who are academically above average but depressed.

I've been sponsoring children through my church my whole life.

Kate enjoys spending time with her grown children and grandson as well as writing, reading.

Undiagnosed siblings in families that include two or more children with.

Other children could sort of take it or leave it, and are ready to move.

Tell me a tale about a wicked stepmother who has two children who are left in the woods.

The single biggest factor, by far, in reducing the rate of death among children younger than five.

If you will be placing the mirror where children play, use.

Children choose their food and drink, their plate and cup type.

It's only natural for faculty children to gravitate to their parents' fields as majors.

Tell me a tale about a wicked stepmother who has: two children who.

Fathers and their children reshape one another's neurons.

They are able to provide comfort and guidance when their children encounter stress, and help them forge appropriate responses.

Children of all ages enjoy learning about space and science at this interactive museum.

She loves working with kids, and has taught cooking to children from preschool through middle school.

We all know our children need to be able to read and write and add up, but increasingly as the pace of change in our world.

Some communities believe the polio vaccine makes children impotent and sterile.

Children in orphanages have chromosome changes that could affect future health.

Be careful with such controls if children or pets use the garden, since bait is attractive to them.

Talk to your children about new or distinctive sounds.

Human microbiota could be behind why deficient diets leave only some children seriously ill.

Green lacewings: beautiful creatures with voracious children.

Simplicity is knowing your children are getting all the goodness they need.

The authors applied this model to the children and the number lines.

Explain to children what a life cycle is and how all living things have a life cycle.

Idling school buses spew tons of exhaust into the air, putting children at risk when they leave school at the end of each day.

All autistic children suffer from an impaired ability to.

Today expectant parents concerned about the diseases that could afflict their unborn children don't have a lot of options.

California scientists have identified autism clusters where children are twice as likely to have autism and mostly.

Children with dyslexia have trouble reading and writing, but the root of the problem may actually be in.

Fathers are biologically as responsive to their children as mothers are.

Like children learning to speak, little zebra finches learn songs from their elders.

The number of overweight children continues to grow.

Any human mother of multiples knows it's hard to raise two or more children of the same age at the same time.

The children come running as soon as the boat pushes onto the riverbank, mooring next to empty handmade fish traps.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

noun, plural chil·dren.

a person between birth and full growth; a boy or girl: books for children.

a son or daughter: All my children are married.

a baby or infant.

a human fetus.

a childish person: He's such a child about money.

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a descendant: a child of an ancient breed.

any person or thing regarded as the product or result of particular agencies, influences, etc.: Abstract art is a child of the 20th century.

a person regarded as conditioned or marked by a given circumstance, situation, etc.: a child of poverty; a child of famine.

British Dialect Archaic. a female infant.

10.

Archaic. childe.

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Idiom

11.

with child, pregnant: She's with child.

Origin:
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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Collins

World English Dictionary

children (ˈtʃɪldrən)

—n
	the plural of child

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Word Origin & History

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

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cild, 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).

children

plural of child (q.v.)

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American Heritage

Medical Dictionary

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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