What is "child" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does child mean in English? Meaning of child definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "child" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "child": a young person of either sex

Noun

  • Meaning: a young person of either sex
  • Example: she writes books for children they're just kids `tiddler' is a British term for youngster
  • Synonyms: child fry kid minor nestling nipper shaver small fry tiddler tike tyke youngster
  • Hyponyms: bairn bambino buster changeling child prodigy foster child foster-child fosterling imp infant prodigy kiddy kindergartener kindergartner monkey orphan peanut picaninny piccaninny pickaninny poster child preschooler rapscallion rascal scalawag scallywag scamp silly sprog street child toddler tot urchin waif wonder child yearling
  • Hypernyms: juvenile juvenile person
  • Part Holonyms: child's body
  • Meaning of "child": a human offspring (son or daughter) of any age

    Noun

  • Meaning: a human offspring (son or daughter) of any age
  • Example: they had three children they were able to send their kids to college
  • Synonyms: child kid
  • Hyponyms: army brat babe baby female offspring infant male offspring man-child stepchild
  • Hypernyms: issue offspring progeny
  • Antonyms: parent
  • Meaning of "child": an immature childish person

    Noun

  • Meaning: an immature childish person
  • Example: he remained a child in practical matters as long as he lived stop being a baby!
  • Synonyms: baby child
  • Hypernyms: individual mortal person somebody someone soul
  • Meaning of "child": a member of a clan or tribe

    Noun

  • Meaning: a member of a clan or tribe
  • Example: the children of Israel
  • Synonyms: child
  • Hypernyms: descendant descendent
  • Synonyms:

    infant, toddler, adolescent, juvenile, youth, teenager, baby, kid, offspring, minor, youngster, bairn, sprout, suckling, newborn, lamb, progeny, tyke, tot, imp, cub, innocent, squirt, issue, neonate, teen, nursling, babe, urchin, nipper, bambino, mite, descendant, moppet, brat, chick, cherub, stripling, whippersnapper, nestling, shaver, dickens, preteen, tadpole, anklebiter, kiddie, little angel, little darling, little doll, little one, pubescent, small fry, teenybopper, young one,

    Antonyms:

    adult, parent,

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