Child

noun children · childer · childe · chile · childrens · childs

1. broadly 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.
2. broadly, sometimes 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. One's direct descendant by birth, regardless of age; one's offspring; a son or daughter. My youngest child is forty-three this year.
4. The thirteenth Lenormand card.
5. figuratively A person considered a product of a place or culture, a member of a tribe or culture, regardless of age. the children of Israel
6. figuratively Anything derived from or caused by something. Poverty, disease, and despair are the children of war.
7. figuratively 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.
8. alternative Alternative form of childe (“youth of noble birth”).childe
9. A subordinate node of a tree.
10. figuratively An adult or adolescent with childish or stupid behaviors. My husband is such a child, going out with his sled everytime it snows.
11. obsolete, specifically A female child, a girl. A boy, or a Childe I wonder?

Similar: boy, and Thesaurus:girl, binary clone, progeny, hybrid, bairn, brat, child, chit, crumb cruncher, crumb crusher, crumb grinder

verb childs · childing · childed

1. ambitransitive, archaic To 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.

noun Childe · Chill

1. Alternative letter-case form of child often used when referring to God (Jesus) or another important child who is understood from context.child often used when referring to God He appeared as an only begotten Child, as a Child calling us to be children also, and yet with this difference, that He and His Father maintained a holy intimacy with each other which no one dared to share.

proper noun Childe · Chill

1. A surname.