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English
Etymology
From Old English ċild.
Pronunciation
Noun
child (plural children or (dialectal) childer or (non-standard) childs or (humorous or non-standard) childrens)
- A daughter or son.
- Her child is in 1st grade.
- A prepubescent person, a minor.
- That child is up to no good.
- 1989, United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, PART I, Article 1
- For the purposes of the present Convention, a child means every human being below the age of eighteen years unless under the law applicable to the child, majority is attained earlier.
- (computing) Some object which has a subservient or derivative role relative to another object.
- The child node then stores the actual data of the parent node.
Synonyms
- (daughter or son): boy, fruit of one's loins, girl, kid, offspring
- (young person): bairn, boy, brat, girl, kid, lad, lass
- See also Wikisaurus:child
Antonyms
References
- Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary (accessed November 2007).
- American Heritage Dictionary, Fourth Edition, Houghton Mifflin Company (2003).
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