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child safety seat

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

A detachable seat intended to provide additional safety to infants and young children when riding in automobiles, now frequently mandated by law.

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21 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Catalan: seient infantil — a car safety restraint designed for infants and young children
  • Chinese Cantonese: 安全椅 (on1 cyun4 ji2) — a car safety restraint designed for infants and young children
  • Chinese Mandarin: 兒童座椅 /儿童座椅 (értóng zuòyǐ) — a car safety restraint designed for infants and young children
  • Chinese Mandarin: 安全椅 (ānquányǐ) — a car safety restraint designed for infants and young children
  • Chinese Mandarin: 嬰兒汽車坐椅 /婴儿汽车坐椅 (yīng'ér qìchē zuòyǐ) — a car safety restraint designed for infants and young children
  • Finnish: turvaistuin — a car safety restraint designed for infants and young children
  • Finnish: lapsen turvaistuin — a car safety restraint designed for infants and young children
  • French: siège enfant — a car safety restraint designed for infants and young children
  • German: Kindersitz — a car safety restraint designed for infants and young children
  • Hungarian: biztonsági gyermekülés — a car safety restraint designed for infants and young children
  • Japanese: チャイルドシート (chairudo shīto) — a car safety restraint designed for infants and young children
  • Kazakh: балалар авто-отырғышы (balalar avto-otyrğyşy) — a car safety restraint designed for infants and young children
  • Polish: fotelik — a car safety restraint designed for infants and young children
  • Polish: fotelik samochodowy — a car safety restraint designed for infants and young children
  • Polish: fotelik dziecięcy — a car safety restraint designed for infants and young children
  • Portuguese: cadeirinha — a car safety restraint designed for infants and young children
  • Russian: де́тское автокре́сло (détskoje avtokréslo) — a car safety restraint designed for infants and young children
  • Russian: де́тское сиде́нье (détskoje sidénʹje) — a car safety restraint designed for infants and young children
  • Russian: де́тское уде́рживающее устро́йство (détskoje udérživajuščeje ustrójstvo) — a car safety restraint designed for infants and young children
  • Spanish: sillita de coche — a car safety restraint designed for infants and young children
  • Swedish: bilbarnstol — a car safety restraint designed for infants and young children