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Children
//ˈtʃɪl.ɹən// name, noun
Definitions
Proper Noun
- 1 A surname.
Noun
- 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 plural of childer form-of, plural
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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