childrens

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childrens

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children + -s, adding the obsolete genitive or the plural marker to an already plural form.

noun

  1. nonstandard, plural plural of child 1980, Mary E. Arnold, Mabel Reed, In the Land of the Grasshopper Song According to Essie, “If a man didn’t pay no money for his wife and they just lived together then his childrens got a bad name. It made a man ashamed when his childrens got a bad name.”
  2. genitive, obsolete genitive of children In this ſaing S. Auguſtin likeneth the ſacramentes of the olde lavve in reſpect of the ſacramentes of the nevve lavve vnto childrens games, and our ſacramentes he likeneth to the thinges of more profett, vvhich are to be geuen to the ſonnes of God, vvhen they vvaxe of more age, knovvledge, and ripen

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Closest in meaning: kids, preschool, childcare, playgroup, pediatric, nursery, maternity, kiddies, educational, creche, daycare, tots, playschool, toddlers, preschoolers, childhood

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@misc{childrens_2026,
  title = {childrens},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/childrens},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}