Children

//ˈtʃɪl.ɹən// name, noun

name, noun ·Very common ·Middle school level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    plural of child form-of, plural

    "Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet."

  2. 2
    plural of childer form-of, plural
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.

Synonyms

All synonyms
babyhoodbinary cloneboyhoodbreedbroodchildkind

Example

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"The mandatory character of schooling is rarely analyzed in the multitude of works dedicated to the study of the various ways to develop within children the desire to learn."

Etymology

From Middle English children, alteration of earlier childre ("children"; > English dialectal childer), from Old English ċildru, ċildra (“children”), nominative and accusative plural of ċild (“child”), equivalent to child + -ren.

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