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Child
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- 1 A surname.
- 1 A person who has not yet reached adulthood, whether natural (puberty), cultural (initiation), or legal (majority). broadly
"Go easy on him: he is but a child."
- 2 Alternative letter-case form of child often used when referring to God (Jesus) or another important child who is understood from context. alt-of
"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."
- 3 a young person of either sex wordnet
- 4 A person who has not yet reached adulthood, whether natural (puberty), cultural (initiation), or legal (majority).; A youth aged 1 to 9 years, whereas neonates are aged 0 to 1 month, infants are aged 1 to 12 months, and adolescents are aged 10 to 20 years. broadly, sometimes
- 5 a human offspring (son or daughter) of any age wordnet
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- 6 One's direct descendant by birth, regardless of age; one's offspring; a son or daughter.
"My youngest child is forty-three this year."
- 7 an immature childish person wordnet
- 8 The thirteenth Lenormand card.
- 9 a member of a clan or tribe wordnet
- 10 A figurative offspring; A person considered a product of a place or culture, a member of a tribe or culture, regardless of age. figuratively
"the children of Israel"
- 11 A figurative offspring; Anything derived from or caused by something. figuratively
"Poverty, disease, and despair are the children of war."
- 12 A figurative offspring; A data item, process, or object which has a subservient or derivative role relative to another. figuratively
"The child node then stores the actual data of the parent node."
- 13 Alternative form of childe (“youth of noble birth”). alt-of, alternative
- 14 A subordinate node of a tree.
- 15 An adult or adolescent with childish or stupid behaviors. figuratively
"My husband is such a child, going out with his sled everytime it snows."
- 16 A female child, a girl. obsolete, specifically
"A boy, or a Childe I wonder?"
- 1 To give birth; to beget or procreate. ambitransitive, archaic
"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."
Etymology
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”).
From Middle English childen, from the noun child.
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