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What does child mean?

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child Noun

— A child is a young person, usually older than a baby but younger than a teenager. The children were playing in the park. Most three-year-old children speak very well. Even as a child of six, I knew what hard work was. Taking care of young children is difficult work. This kind of teaching is useful for all children, not just those children with learning disabilities. We need to do a better job of educating our children. We're collecting food for needy children. — A child is the son or daughter of someone. I am my mother's child in every way. My eldest child is now a doctor. I drove a motorcycle until my children were born. — A child of a particular time, situation, or idea is a person who is strongly influenced by it. As a child of the 90s, I grew up with computers. There isn't actually that much anger among children of divorce. — A child is the product or result of something. This book is the child of an earlier generation of grammatical theory. Anthropology is the child of Western colonialism. The very idea of a garden is the child of water. — If a woman is with child, she is pregnant. She told no one about the sex, even when she realized she was with child. — A child in a tree structure is piece of data, process or object with a role or position closer to the root.

child

— noun (= kid, youngster, tiddler) a young person of either sex she writes books for children they're just kids 'tiddler' is a British term for youngster — noun (= kid) a human offspring (son or daughter) of any age they had three children they were able to send their kids to college — noun (= baby) an immature childish person he remained a child in practical matters as long as he lived stop being a baby! — noun a member of a clan or tribe the children of Israel

Synonyms child synonyms

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child English » English

baby infant offspring kid son boy children daughter youngster youth young bairn young person girl minor toddler descendant adolescent tyke progeny lad young man tot tike tiddler small child small nipper nestling moppet kiddy creation babe younker young child teenager tad small fry shaver seed scion product papoose oneself niece nephew little one little boy fry foetus

Topics child topics

What do people use child to talk about?

Person Life Stage of life

Child

What words refer to a child (from birth to puberty)?

child children kid youngster boy girl brat small fry imp infant juvenile minor offspring progeny schoolchild squirt tad urchin weanling
What words describe something to do with children?

child (adj) childish juvenile

Person Life Stage of life Child

Rear a child

What general words refer to rearing a child?

bring up raise rear have custody parent (v) a child mother (v) a child child-rearing
What words refer to someone who cares for a child?

nurse nursemaid guardian nanny babysitter sitter child minder

Social behavior Relationships

Types of people

What words refer to people of different ages?

baby child youth adult elder

Social behavior Relationships Kinship Related by birth

Son, daughter

What words refer to your children?

child son daughter heir scion kid

Social behavior Relationships Kinship Related by birth

Birth order

What words refer to the order in which a child was born?

oldest youngest firstborn second born last born middle child
What words refer to the only child of its parents?

only child

Social behavior Relationships Kinship

Illegitimate child

What words refer to a child who is born to an unmarried woman?

illegitimate child bastard
What words refer to a woman having a child when she is not married?

have a child out of wedlock

Social behavior Relationships Kinship

Adopt

What words refer to an adopted child?

adopted child foster child

Person Life

Birth

What words refer to a mother giving birth?

have a baby give birth become a mother bear a child deliver hatch

Person Life Birth

Pregnancy

What words refer to a man causing a woman to become pregnant?

beget begetting begotten impregnate get (her) pregnant father (v) a child procreate procreation reproduce sire engender generate

Person Life Birth

Fetus

What words refer to an unborn baby?

unborn child unborn baby fetus embryo

Social behavior Behavior Good, moral Mature in behavior

Immature in behavior

What words refer to doing something immature?

be immature act like a child

Social behavior Behavior Love

Abandon

What words refer to someone who has been abandoned?

abandoned child waif street kid

Examples child examples

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Simple sentences

You must look after the child.

When I was a child, my mother would often read fairy tales to me.

That child was talking with an innocent smile.

The child is learning quickly.

I'll look after your child while you are away.

A child needs love.

I would often go swimming in the sea when a child.

When I was a child, I would often call on him on Sunday.

When a child, I used to go fishing with him.

The child was afraid of being left alone in the dark.

He would often come to see us when I was a child.

He always treats me like a child.

He gave the child a toy.

A child is not a vessel for filling, but a fire to light.

When I was a child, I would spend hours reading alone in my room.

Now that you are grown up, you must not behave like a child.

You are not a child any more.

Your daughter is not a child anymore.

I delivered my first child last year.

The rescue worker beat the area, looking for the child.

She scolded the child for coming home so late.

We searched the woods for the missing child.

You are no longer a mere child.

The burglar shut the child in the closet.

Don't shout at the crying child. It only adds fuel to the fire.

The nurse soothed the crying child.

A burnt child fears the fire.

At a glance, he knew that the child was hungry.

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Then..just tell me this. Does that child, Arang have something to do with this?

If not, then why are you not showing me that child?

Is that what is bothering you, why am I interested in that child?

That child. never dies.

If only I have that child, you don't have to put blood on your hands every leap month, either.

That he could send a little child like you.

What sin did the child commit to be separated from his parents?

Aigoo. my child.

Give us that child.

Go and bring the child.

When our neighbor's child, Sam Wol was sold, I thought it was just some stranger's problem.

Your neighbor's child also suffered the same thing?

Honestly, saving the child doesn't solve the problem.

He took the child?

Let the women and child go and I'll surrender!

Set Naouel and the child free.

You treat that child better than your own.

I hope we won't regret raising this child as ours.

Yeah, Mr. Moran, if this continues to go downhill, I'm required by law to notify Child Protective Services.

My subcutaneous fat can envelop any kind of attack they throw at me like child's play.

It's like a child's spy notebook, right?

By calculating trajectories with my computing power, it would be child's play to evade the path of the oncoming debris.

I was excited to have a child with him.

Please love and care for this orphan child.

If he or any other person will bring the child to Police Headquarters the above reward will be paid.

You look great, my child.

This is my only child, my beloved daughter Carlotta.

Yes, I am His child.

Thank you. Seeing Master falling for you was like my child growing up well under the sun, so I felt really good.

Does that child, Arang have something to do with this?

What do you mean. If not, then why are you not showing me that child?

Ju Wal. Didn't I tell you not to have any doubts? Is that what is bothering you, why am I interested in that child?

That child.

There's a way to save your mother. What do you mean? Kim Eun Oh, the child that is inside your mother. she's my sister.

You've always been this golden child.

I'm child-size.

News and current affairs

WAGENINGEN, NETHERLANDS - Born in 1957, the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is now more than 50 years old, and the European Commission is proposing what it calls a health check for its middle-aged child.

From a child's perspective, it wasn't self-evident that losing was a good thing.

That is why the League of Nations approved the Geneva Declaration on the Rights of the Child in 1924, and why the international community adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1989.

In fact, it has not even ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Among developed countries, only Romania has a higher rate of child poverty.

And, partly because an American child's lifetime prospects are more dependent on his or her parents' income and education than in other advanced countries, the US now has the least equality of opportunity of any advanced country.

None of it helps to address the underlying problems of poverty, child mortality, water scarcity, and lack of livelihoods in places like Pakistan's Northwest Frontier Province, Sudan's Darfur region, or Somalia.

The impact of that experience led me to spend the next 40 years working to ensure that every child in Mozambique, regardless of her ethnicity or where she lives, gets the vaccines that she needs to help her lead a long and healthy life.

Through the use of propane, we can ensure that the vaccines do not spoil during the journey from manufacturer to mother and child.

Let us concede that child marriage, female circumcision, and the like are not found reprehensible by many societies; but let us also ask the victims of these practices how they feel.

In 2008, about 5.5 million working families in the UK received tax credits, including working and child credits, housing benefits, and local tax benefits.

Not only can and must fathers assume a greater role in child rearing; a large part of homemaking is perfectly suitable to be met by the market.

If women in Europe work more hours in better quality jobs, it will stimulate demand for service jobs like cleaning and child care, thus reducing unemployment among low-skilled workers.

Even before that, she would have noticed that the child had not turned properly, and that major problems were on the way.

Though serious, the charges against him - recruiting child soldiers - do not pretend to encompass the range of abuses committed.

In Washington recently, the United Nations rolled out an action plan that should dramatically accelerate progress on maternal and child health, including HIV.

In a particularly poignant story, a young man convinces his partner to have an abortion, viewing their unborn child as a hindrance to the status quo.

Whatever each family's experience, the result has been a child reaching a level of education of which many people can only dream.

Would they be prepared to stop working or reduce their workload, in order to care for a child or parent?

As many experts warn, the first time a drone strike kills a woman or child, a video of the scene and the funeral will be posted for the Muslim world to see.

We had a child, and my mother came from Uzbekistan to join us.

Economic growth tends to suffer: when poor households have many children, the education given to each child also tends to be reduced.

For the American champion, the match was the consummation of two decades of chasing the title, starting from his days as a child prodigy.

Reprogenetics, by contrast, is concerned with the question of what genes an individual child will receive, not with the vague, unscientific goal of improving a society's gene pool.

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