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IELTS BNC: 114 COCA: 115

child

noun

ˈchī(-ə)ld How to pronounce child (audio)
plural children ˈchil-drən How to pronounce child (audio)
-dərn
often attributive
1
a
: a young person especially between infancy and puberty
a play for both children and adults
b
: a person not yet of the age of majority (see majority sense 2a)
Under the law she is still a child.
c
: a childlike or childish person
He is a child in most business matters.
2
a
: a son or daughter of human parents
Do you have any children?
b
: descendant
the children of Israel
3
a
: an unborn or recently born person
… Meghan Markle, married Prince Harry, now pregnant with child. Laura Simonetti
b
dialect : a female infant
4
: one strongly influenced by another or by a place or state of affairs
a child of the streets
a child of nature
America has been called "the first child of the Enlightenment"
5
: product, result
barbed wire … is truly a child of the plains W. P. Webb
6
usually childe
ˈchī(-ə)ld How to pronounce child (audio)
, archaic : a youth of noble birth
childless
ˈchī(-ə)l(d)-ləs How to pronounce child (audio)
adjective
childlessness noun
Phrases
with child
: pregnant

Synonyms

Example Sentences

the birth of a child She's pregnant with their first child. a play for both children and adults All of their children are grown now. an elderly couple and their adult children Men are such children sometimes. See More
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Word History

Etymology

Middle English, from Old English cild; akin to Goth kilthei womb, and perhaps to Sanskrit jaṭhara belly

First Known Use

before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 3a

Time Traveler
The first known use of child was before the 12th century

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