English > child: 4 senses > noun 1, person | Meaning | A young person of either sex. |
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| Example | "she writes books for children" |
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| Synonyms | kid, youngster, minor, shaver, nipper, small fry, tiddler, tike, tyke, fry, nestling |
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| Parts | child's body | The body of a human child |
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| Narrower | bairn | A child |
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| buster | A robust child |
| changeling | A child secretly exchanged for another in infancy |
| child prodigy, infant prodigy, wonder child | A prodigy whose talents are recognized at an early age |
| foster-child, foster child, fosterling | A child who is raised by foster parents |
| imp, scamp, monkey, rascal, rapscallion, scalawag, scallywag | One who is playfully mischievous |
| kiddy, kiddie | A young child |
| orphan | A child who has lost both parents |
| peanut | A young child who is small for his age |
| pickaninny, piccaninny, picaninny | (ethnic slur) offensive term for a Black child |
| poster child | A child afflicted by some disease or deformity whose picture is used on posters to raise money for charitable purposes |
| preschooler, kindergartner, kindergartener | A child who attends a preschool or kindergarten |
| silly | A word used for misbehaving children |
| sprog | A child |
| toddler, yearling, tot, bambino | A young child |
| urchin | Poor and often mischievous city child |
| waif, street child | A homeless child especially one forsaken or orphaned |
| Broader | juvenile, juvenile person | A young person, not fully developed |
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| Spanish | alevín, chango, chaval, chico, chiqüelo, chiquillo, cría, criatura, crío, joven, jovenzuelo, menor de edad, menor, mozalbete, muchachuelo, nene, niño, pececillo, tike |
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| Catalan | criatura, jove, menor, nen, tike, xaval, xic |
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| Adjectives | childly | befitting a young child |
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| Nouns | childhood | the state of a child between infancy and adolescence |
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| childhood | the time of person's life when they are a child |
