child
Pronunciation: /tʃaɪld/
The English word “child” has 11 meanings listed here.
noun
- 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.
- One's direct descendant by birth, regardless of age; one's offspring; a son or daughter.
- The thirteenth Lenormand card.
- A person considered a product of a place or culture, a member of a tribe or culture, regardless of age.
- Anything derived from or caused by something.
- A data item, process, or object which has a subservient or derivative role relative to another.
- A subordinate node of a tree.
- An adult or adolescent with childish or stupid behaviors.
- A female child, a girl.
verb
Etymology
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…
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