child meaning
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WChild
- Biologically, a child (plural: children) is a human between the stages of birth and puberty. The legal definition of child generally refers to a minor, otherwise known as a person younger than the age of majority.
- Child may also describe a relationship with a parent (such as sons and daughters of any age) or, metaphorically, an authority figure, or signify group membership in a clan, tribe,
- There are many social issues that affect children, such as childhood education, bullying, child poverty, dysfunctional families and in developing countries, hunger.
EN Child 



- NounPLchildrenPLchilder
- A human between birth and puberty.
- A person below the age of adulthood; a minor (generally below 18 years of age or below the legal age of responsibility or accountability).
- One's daughter or son; an offspring.
- Her child is in 1st grade.
- My youngest child is forty-three.
- (figuratively) An offspring; one born in, or considered a product of the culture of, a place.
- (figuratively) A member of a tribe, a people or a race of beings; one born into or considered a product of a people.
- (figuratively) A thing or abstraction derived from or caused by something.
- Poverty, disease, and despair are the children of war.
- (computing) A data item, process or object which has a subservient or derivative role relative to another data item, process or object.
- The child node then stores the actual data of the parent node.
- OBS A female infant; a girl.
- A human between birth and puberty.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- The teacher did her best to quieten the children down.
- Out shopping, child to parent. “Daddy I want this, daddy I want that.” Daddy, “Daddy pok kai awreddy, ask your mummy.”
- The children sat on the dock and dabbled their feet in the water.
- Used in the Beginning of Sentence
- Children naturally gravitate to such a big, friendly man.
- Children who do not receive enough attention may begin to play up.
- Children may act up in class in an effort to get attention.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- My heart seemed to skip a beat when I parked my car at the old Safeway supermarket. My eyes gaped at the same aisles I had strolled through as a child.
- I pray you, sirs, to take some cheers the while I go for a moment's space to my poor afflicted child.
- Have a heart and be lenient with him; he's only a child.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of child in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Nouns
- Nouns with irregular plurals
- Countable nouns
- Nouns with irregular plurals
- Nouns
- en children
- en childhood
- en childish
- en childlike
- en childbirth
Source: Wiktionary