name
Meaning 1
A surname.
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name
A surname.
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noun
A person who has not yet reached adulthood, whether natural (puberty), cultural (initiation), or legal (majority).
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Usage: broadly
Synonyms: kid
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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.
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Usage: broadly, sometimes
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Synonyms: kid
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Broader terms: kid
noun
One's direct descendant by birth, regardless of age; one's offspring; a son or daughter.
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noun
The thirteenth Lenormand card.
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Topics: cartomancy, human-sciences, mysticism, philosophy, sciences
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noun
A figurative offspring
A person considered a product of a place or culture, a member of a tribe or culture, regardless of age.
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Usage: figuratively
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noun
A figurative offspring
Anything derived from or caused by something.
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Usage: figuratively
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noun
A figurative offspring
A data item, process, or object which has a subservient or derivative role relative to another.
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Usage: figuratively
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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noun
Alternative form of childe (“youth of noble birth”).
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Usage: alt-of, alternative
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noun
A subordinate node of a tree.
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Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, programming, sciences
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noun
An adult or adolescent with childish or stupid behaviors.
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Usage: figuratively
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noun
A female child, a girl.
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Usage: obsolete, specifically
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noun
Alternative letter-case form of child often used when referring to God (Jesus) or another important child who is understood from context.
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Usage: alt-of
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verb
To give birth; to beget or procreate.
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Usage: ambitransitive, archaic
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noun
a young person of either sex
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: kid, youngster, minor, shaver, nipper, small fry, tiddler, tike, tyke, fry, nestling
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: juvenile, juvenile person
Narrower terms: bairn, buster, changeling, child prodigy, infant prodigy, wonder child, foster-child, foster child, fosterling, imp, scamp, monkey, rascal, rapscallion, scalawag, scallywag, kiddy, orphan, peanut, pickaninny, piccaninny, picaninny, poster child, preschooler, kindergartner, kindergartener, silly, sprog, toddler, yearling, tot, bambino, urchin, waif, street child
noun
a human offspring (son or daughter) of any age
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: kid
Antonyms: parent
Broader terms: offspring, progeny, issue
Narrower terms: army brat, baby, babe, infant, female offspring, male offspring, man-child, stepchild
noun
an immature childish person
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: baby
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Broader terms: person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
noun
a member of a clan or tribe
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Broader terms: descendant, descendent
History
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 (jarta), जर्तु (jártu, “vulva”).
From Middle English childen, from the noun child.
Across languages
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