Etimology
From Middle English child, from Old English ċild, from Proto-West Germanic *kilþ, *kelþ, from Proto-Germanic *kelþaz (“womb; fetus”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵelt- (“womb”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to ball up, amass”). Cognate with Danish kuld (“brood, litter”), Swedish kull (“brood, litter”), Icelandic kelta, kjalta (“lap”), Gothic 𐌺𐌹𐌻𐌸𐌴𐌹 (kilþei, “womb”), Sanskrit जर्त (jarta), जर्तु (jártu, “vulva”).
noun
child (plural children or (dialectal or archaic) childer)
(broadly) A person who has not yet reached adulthood, whether natural (puberty), cultural (initiation), or legal (majority).
(with possessive) One's direct descendant by birth, regardless of age; one's offspring; a son or daughter.
(cartomancy) The thirteenth Lenormand card.
(figurative) A figurative offspring, particularly:
Alternative form of childe (“youth of noble birth”)
(mathematics, programming) A subordinate node of a tree.
(obsolete, specifically) A female child, a girl.
Examples
Synonym: kid
Hyponyms: newborn, neonate, preteen, adolescent, tweenager, teenager, tween, teen, preadult
Go easy on him: he is but a child.
And not just the children, teenagers too. Chuck wants a football, Kathleen a tattoo.
It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. […] It is the starving of the public sector which has been pivotal in America no longer being the land of opportunity – with a child's life prospects more dependent on the income and education of its parents than in other advanced countries.
Regular chores can be appropriate for both children and adolescents, given age-appropriate limits on difficulty level and time on task.
Hypernym: kid
Coordinate terms: newborn, neonate, infant, adolescent, teenager, teen
My youngest child is forty-three this year.
His adult children visit him yearly.
The children of Israel.
He is a child of his times.
For more than forty years, he preached the creed of art and beauty. He was heir to the ancient wisdom of Israel, a child of Germany, a subject of Great Britain, later an American citizen, but in truth a citizen of the world.
Plash-Goo was of the children of the giants, whose sire was Uph. And the lineage of Uph had dwindled in bulk for the last five hundred years, till the giants were now no more than fifteen foot high; but Uph ate elephants […]
Poverty, disease, and despair are the children of war.
The child node then stores the actual data of the parent node.
The algorithm pops the stack to obtain a new current node when there are no more children .
A boy, or a Childe I wonder?
Related words
synonyms
(young person): See Thesaurus:child, Thesaurus:boy, & Thesaurus:girl
(offspring): See offspring and Thesaurus:son and Thesaurus:daughter, binary clone, progeny, hybrid
(descendant): See descendant
(product of a place or era): product, son (male), daughter (female)
antonyms
(antonym(s) of "offspring"): father, mother, parent
(antonym(s) of "person below the age of adulthood"): adult
(antonym(s) of "data item, process or object in a subordinate role"): parent
related terms
chield
Child
childe
Childermas
Etimology
From Middle English childen, from the noun child.
verb
child (third-person singular simple present childs, present participle childing, simple past and past participle childed)
(archaic, transitive, intransitive) To give birth; to beget or procreate.
Examples
My liefe ye know, that long ygo, Whileſt ye in durance dwelt, ye to me gaue A little mayde, the which ye chylded tho ; The ſame againe if now ye liſt to haue, The ſame is yonder Lady, whom high God did ſaue.
And from his fertill hollow wombe forth ran, A Nymph, for age able to goe to man, An hundreth plants beſide Childed an hundreth Nymphes, ſo great, ſo dight: […]
[…] But then the mind much ſufferance doth or'e ſcip, When griefe hath mates,and bearing fellowſhip : How light and portable my paine ſeemes now, When that which makes me bend, makes the King bow, He childed as I fathered,Tom away, Marke the high noyſes and thy ſelfe bewray, […]