child

noun

1. 1

   A person who has not yet reached adulthood, whether natural (puberty), cultural (initiation), or legal (majority).

   Go easy on him: he is but a child.

   Regular chores can be appropriate for children, given age-appropriate limits on difficulty level and time on task.

   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.

2. 2

   A person who has not yet reached adulthood, whether natural (puberty), cultural (initiation), or legal (majority). A youth aged 1 to 9 years, whereas neonates are aged 0 to 1 month, infants are aged 1 to 12 months, and adolescents are aged 10 to 20 years.

3. 3

   One's direct descendant by birth, regardless of age; one's offspring; a son or daughter.

   My youngest child is forty-three this year.

   His adult children visit him yearly.

4. 4

   The thirteenth Lenormand card.

5. 5

   figurativeA figurative offspring A person considered a product of a place or culture, a member of a tribe or culture, regardless of age.

   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[…]

6. 6

   figurativeA figurative offspring Anything derived from or caused by something.

   Poverty, disease, and despair are the children of war.

7. 7

   figurativeA figurative offspring A data item, process, or object which has a subservient or derivative role relative to another.

   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 (when it reaches a leaf).

8. 8

   A subordinate node of a tree.

9. 9

   figurativeAn adult or adolescent with childish or stupid behaviors.

   My husband is such a child, going out with his sled everytime it snows.

10. 10

    obsoleteA female child, a girl.

    A boy, or a Childe I wonder?

11. 11

    Variant of childeAlternative form of childe (“youth of noble birth”).

verb

1. 1

   archaicTo give birth; to beget or procreate.

   My liefe (ſayd ſhe) 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, (Clad in rare weedes and ſtrange habiliment) A Nymph, for age able to goe to man, An hundreth plants beſide (euen in his ſight) 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,[…]

Forms

plural

children, childer

past tense

childed

past participle

childed

present participle

childing

third person singular

childs