child
Meaning of child
noun
- 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.
- Languages in which child is used:
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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:
Meaning a male child or youth:
Meaning a female child:
Meaning a recently born child or animal:
Meaning a very young child or baby:
Meaning a young child who is just beginning to walk:
Meaning a boy attending school:
Meaning a girl attending school:
Meaning an adolescent boy or girl:
Meaning a person aged between 13 and 19 years:
Meaning the period between childhood and adult age:
Meaning a young person:
Meaning a person who is a specified number of years younger than someone else:
Meaning a young man:
Meaning a young bird that has just fledged:
Meaning a young and inexperienced person considered to be presumptuous or overconfident:
Meaning a boy or man in relation to either or both of his parents:
Meaning a girl or woman in relation to either or both of her parents:
Meaning a descendant of a notable family:
Meaning a person, plant, or animal that is descended from a particular ancestor:
Meaning a person's child or children:
Meaning a descendant or the descendants of a person, animal, or plant; offspring:
Meaning an important topic or problem for debate or discussion:
Meaning a newborn child (or other mammal):
Meaning a child:
Meaning accustom (an infant or other young mammal) to food other than its mother's milk:
Meaning a boy or young man (often as a form of address):
Meaning a girl or young woman:
Meaning a young child:
Meaning a small child:
Meaning a very young child:
Meaning the years of a person's age from 13 to 19:
Meaning a young teenager, typically a girl, who keenly follows the latest fashions in clothes and pop music:
Meaning a baby:
Meaning a clumsy or awkward youth:
Meaning a child, typically one that is badly behaved:
Meaning a short official note, typically recording a sum owed:
Meaning a young child who is poorly or raggedly dressed:
Meaning a scruffy and badly behaved child who spends most of their time on the street:
Translation of child
- German: Kind
- French: enfant, petit, gosse
- Spanish: hija, hijo, prole, niño, niña, infante
- Italian: figlio, bambino, fanciullino, fanciullo
- Portuguese: filho, criança
Words that rhyme with child
Hild, hild, Child, Fairchild, Rothschild, Schild, brainchild, 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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