child
nounEtymology
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”).
Definitions
A person who has not yet reached adulthood, whether natural (puberty), cultural…
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.
- And not just the children, teenagers too. Chuck wants a football, Kathleen a tattoo.
One's direct descendant by birth, regardless of age
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.
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A figurative offspring
- the children of Israel
- He is a child of his times.
- For more than forty years, he preached the creed of art and beauty. He was heir to the ancient wisdom of Israel, a child of Germany, a subject of Great Britain, later an American citizen, but in truth a citizen of the world.
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.
- A boy, or a Childe I wonder?
To give birth
To give birth; to beget or procreate.
- My liefe (ſayd ſhe) ye know, that long ygo, Whileſt ye in durance dwelt, ye to me gaue A little mayde, the which ye chylded tho ; The ſame againe if now ye liſt to haue, The ſame is yonder Lady, whom high God did ſaue.
- And from his fertill hollow wombe forth ran, (Clad in rare weedes and ſtrange habiliment) A Nymph, for age able to goe to man, An hundreth plants beſide (euen in his ſight) Childed an hundreth Nymphes, ſo great, ſo dight:[…]
Alternative letter-case form of child often used when referring to God (Jesus) or another…
Alternative letter-case form of child often used when referring to God (Jesus) or another important child who is understood from context.
- He appeared as an only begotten Child, as a Child calling us to be children also, and yet with this difference, that He and His Father maintained a holy intimacy with each other which no one dared to share.
A surname.
The neighborhood
- synonymboy
- synonymand Thesaurus:girl
- synonymbinary clone
- synonymprogeny
- synonymhybrid
- synonymbairn
- synonymbrat
- synonymchild
- synonymchit
- synonymcrumb cruncher
- synonymcrumb crusher
- synonymcrumb grinder
- antonymfatherantonym(s) of “offspring”
- antonymmotherantonym(s) of “offspring”
- antonymparentantonym(s) of “offspring”
- antonymadultantonym(s) of “person below the age of adulthood”
- antonymgrownup
- neighborchield
- neighborChild
- neighborchilde
- neighborChildermas
- neighbororling
- neighborrelative
- neighborsweetheart
- neighbor:Category:Children
- neighborperson
- neighborbaby
- neighborbabe
- neighborinfant
Derived
abandoned child syndrome, a burnt child dreads the fire, adult child, antichild, barrel child, battered child syndrome, belchild, biochild, birthchild, black child, boomerang child, boychild, brainchild, butterfly child, call someone everything but a child of God, Chester, child abuse, child abuser, child actor, childbearer, child-bearing, childbearing, child-bed, childbed, child benefit, child birth, child-birth, childbirth, child bride, child-bride, child care, childcare, childcarer, childcaring, child carrier, child car seat, child category, child-centered, child-crowing, child diddler · +155 more
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at child. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at child. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
9 hops · closes at child
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA