child
IPA: tʃˈaɪɫd
noun
- (broadly) A person who has not yet reached adulthood, whether natural (puberty), cultural (initiation), or legal (majority).
- (pediatrics, sometimes, in a stricter sense) A kid aged 1 to 11 years, whereas neonates are aged 0 to 1 month, infants are aged 1 month to 12 months, and adolescents are aged 12 years to 18 years.
- (with possessive) One's direct descendant by birth, regardless of age; one's offspring; a son or daughter.
- (cartomancy) The thirteenth Lenormand card.
- (figurative) A figurative offspring
- A person considered a product of a place or culture, a member of a tribe or culture, regardless of age.
- Anything derived from or caused by something.
- (computing) A data item, process, or object which has a subservient or derivative role relative to another.
- (mathematics, programming) A subordinate node of a tree.
- (obsolete, specifically) A female child, a girl.
- A surname.
- Alternative form of childe (“youth of noble birth”) [A child of noble birth.]
- Alternative letter-case form of child often used when referring to God (Jesus) or another important child who is understood from context.
verb
- (archaic, transitive, intransitive) To give birth; to beget or procreate.
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Examples of "child" in Sentences
- QUOTATION: When I was a child, I spake as a child .
- Any child who needed a mother so much, was _her own child_.
- "_God of love, guard Thy child; God of power, save Thy child_," I prayed.
- I was no longer a child of the devil, a maiden accursed; but it was my love, my soul, light of my eyes, my child.
- _Surely, I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child_.
- My child you never would believe to be _my child_, from the evidence of his immense cheeks and chins -- for pray don't suppose that he has only one chin.
- And in Delia's there will reverberate till death that wail of a fierce and childless woman -- that last cry of nature in one who had defied nature -- of womanhood in one who had renounced the ways of womanhood: "_the child -- the child_!"
- The comprehension of much language can be given to the little deaf child by constantly talking just as any mother does to her hearing baby, only being always careful to take a position facing the main source of light, which should come _from behind the child_.
- He meant to set the child right; he meant to see _only_ the _child_ in her until White returned; he would ignore the perilously sweet woman-appeal to his senses until such time as he could, with safety, let them once more hold part in their relations with each other.
- And there was Polly, the child, seated in the room, and looking about nine or ten years old: and I was distinctly conscious of the fact, yet without any feeling of surprise at its incongruity, that I was going to take the _child_ Polly with me to the theatre, to see the _grown-up_ Polly act!
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