Child

Meaning of Child

noun
  1. a young human being below the age of puberty or below the legal age of majority.
    she'd been playing tennis since she was a child
    the film is not suitable for children

Old English cild, of Germanic origin. The Middle English plural childer or childre became childeren or children by association with plurals ending in -en, such as brethren .

Information about Child

  • It is a name.
  • The plural form of Child is: Childs.
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Hyphenation of Child

Child

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
  • Child is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

Child synonyms

Meaning kid:

kid, youngster, minor, shaver, nipper, tiddler, tike, tyke, fry, nestling

Meaning baby:

baby

Meaning a male child or youth:

boy

Meaning a female child:

girl

Meaning a recently born child or animal:

newborn

Meaning a very young child or baby:

infant

Meaning a young child who is just beginning to walk:

toddler

Meaning a boy attending school:

schoolboy

Meaning a girl attending school:

schoolgirl

Meaning an adolescent boy or girl:

adolescent

Meaning a person aged between 13 and 19 years:

teenager

Meaning the period between childhood and adult age:

youth

Meaning a young person:

juvenile

Meaning a person who is a specified number of years younger than someone else:

junior

Meaning a young man:

stripling

Meaning a young bird that has just fledged:

fledgling

Meaning a young and inexperienced person considered to be presumptuous or overconfident:

whippersnapper

Meaning a boy or man in relation to either or both of his parents:

son

Meaning a girl or woman in relation to either or both of her parents:

daughter

Meaning a descendant of a notable family:

scion

Meaning a person, plant, or animal that is descended from a particular ancestor:

descendant

Meaning a person's child or children:

offspring

Meaning a descendant or the descendants of a person, animal, or plant; offspring:

progeny

Meaning an important topic or problem for debate or discussion:

issue

Meaning a newborn child (or other mammal):

neonate

Meaning a child:

bairn, sprog

Meaning accustom (an infant or other young mammal) to food other than its mother's milk:

wean

Meaning a boy or young man (often as a form of address):

laddie, lad

Meaning a girl or young woman:

lassie, lass

Meaning a young child:

kiddie

Meaning a small child:

kiddiewink

Meaning a very young child:

tot, tiny

Meaning the years of a person's age from 13 to 19:

teen

Meaning a young teenager, typically a girl, who keenly follows the latest fashions in clothes and pop music:

teenybopper

Meaning a baby:

babe

Meaning a clumsy or awkward youth:

hobbledehoy

Meaning a child, typically one that is badly behaved:

brat

Meaning a short official note, typically recording a sum owed:

chit

Meaning a young child who is poorly or raggedly dressed:

urchin

Meaning a scruffy and badly behaved child who spends most of their time on the street:

guttersnipe

Words that rhyme with Child

Hild, hild, Fairchild, Rothschild, Schild, brainchild, child, cradlechild, girlchild, godchild, grandchild, lovechild, maidchild, maidenchild, manchild, merchild, schoolchild, stepchild, stepgrandchild, twichild, unchild, Borghild, Grimhild, Kriemhild, Brunhild, Brynhild, brunhild, brynhild, uphild

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