Child Definition
chīld
children
noun
children
A boy or girl in the period before puberty.
Webster's New World
A person who has not attained maturity or the age of legal majority.
American Heritage Medicine
An unborn human offspring; fetus.
Webster's New World
A human infant; baby.
Webster's New World
A descendant.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
idiom
with child
- Pregnant.
American Heritage
with child
- pregnant
Webster's New World
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Origin of Child
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From Middle English, from Old English ċild (“child, infant, youth of gentle birth”), from Proto-Germanic *kelþą (“child in the womb, fruit of the womb, child”), from Proto-Indo-European *g(')elt- (“womb”). Cognate with Danish kuld (“brood, litter”), Swedish kull (“brood, litter”), Icelandic kelta, kjalta (“lap”), Gothic (kilþei, “womb”), Sanskrit जर्त (jarta), जर्तु (jártu, “vulva”).
From Wiktionary
Middle English from Old English cild
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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