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Type Words
Synonyms kid
Type of offspring, progeny, issue
Has types babe, man-child, stepchild, army brat, female offspring, baby, male offspring, infant


they had three children.
Type Words
Synonyms fry, kid, minor, nestling, nipper, shaver, small fry, tiddler, tike, tyke, youngster
Type of juvenile, juvenile person
Has types rapscallion, rascal, scalawag, scallywag, scamp, silly, sprog, street child, toddler, tot, urchin, waif, wonder child, yearling, bairn, bambino, buster, changeling, child prodigy, foster-child, foster child, fosterling, imp, infant prodigy, kiddie, kiddy, kindergartener, kindergartner, monkey, orphan, peanut, picaninny, piccaninny, pickaninny, poster child, preschooler
Derivation childhood, childly


she writes books for children.
Type Words
Synonyms baby
Type of person, somebody, someone, soul, mortal, individual
Derivation childhood


he remained a child in practical matters as long as he lived.
Type Words
Type of descendent, descendant


the children of Israel.

Examples of child

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At 13, your child can begin to do her own laundry and help prepare family meals.
From the stltoday.com
In Flagler County, she is charged with organized fraud and felony child neglect.
From the news-journalonline.com
Did I mention the film begins with a distressed child crying out for a lost pet?
From the bostonherald.com
I believe that it doesn't take a village to raise a child, it takes two parents.
From the washingtontimes.com
Tata also pleaded not guilty to injury to a child and child abandonment charges.
From the thenewstribune.com
Each child came from a strong faith affirmed by ever-expanding measures of love.
From the thenewstribune.com
The first dose is given right after birth, before the child leaves the hospital.
From the orlandosentinel.com
The state put $131 million into the child welfare contracts last year, she said.
From the omaha.com
The closest Sanfilippo child the Chapins know of lives in the Florida Panhandle.
From the orlandosentinel.com
More examples
  • A young person of either sex; "she writes books for children"; "they're just kids"; "`tiddler' is a British term for youngster"
  • A human offspring (son or daughter) of any age; "they had three children"; "they were able to send their kids to college"
  • An immature childish person; "he remained a child in practical matters as long as he lived"; "stop being a baby!"
  • A member of a clan or tribe; "the children of Israel"
  • (childly) childlike: befitting a young child; "childlike charm"
  • Congenital hemidysplasia with ichthyosiform erythroderma and limb defects (also known as "CHILD syndrome") is a genetic disorder with onset at birth seen almost exclusively in females.Freedberg, et al. (2003). Fitzpatrick's Dermatology in General Medicine. (6th ed.). McGraw-Hill. ...
  • Biologically, a child (plural: children) is generally a human between the stages of birth and puberty. The legal definition of "child" generally refers to a minor, otherwise known as a person younger than the age of majority. ...
  • The Child archetype, is an important Jungian archetype in Jungian psychology, first suggested by Swiss psychologist, Carl Jung. Recently, author Caroline Myss suggested Child, amongst four the Survival Archetypes (Victim, Prostitute, and Saboteur), present in all of us. ...
  • The ancient Egyptian child hieroglyph is part of the Egyptian Gardiner's Sign List hieroglyphs for the beginning core subgroup of Man and his Occupations. It relates to the child, and childhood, and has a version for the Pharaoh, as a child.